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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (7971)	8/1/2009 8:07:40 AM
From: Road Walker	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) of 42652

How does it contain cost. It's just insurance provided by the government rather than by an employer. What's the practical difference in terms of cost? Squeezing the providers as Medicare/Medicaid and some insurers now do? Some insurers? But yes, that's part of it. Maybe the heart surgeon only makes a $Million a year instead of $10Million. You take the profit, most of the marketing and most of the overhead costs for denials, the huge executive salaries from the insurance companies out of the system. Is that all of the savings? Probably not... all I know is it works for every country that does single payer. And what we are doing, from a cost basis, doesn't work. When you have a dozen or more people doing things one way and spending 1/2 of what another person does another way, at some point it has to dawn on you that their way is cheaper. You can argue around the edges and about quality and socialism and our way of doing things but at some point please acknowledge that simple and obvious fact; single payer is a cheaper system.

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