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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (7977)	8/1/2009 9:20:35 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 42652

all I know is it works for every country that does single payer. Exactly. All you know. 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 the key variable? How do you know that? You pick one variable out of a nest of variables and claim that's the one that produces the outcome. I call that confirmation bias with a touch of magical thinking. 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. I acknowledge that socialism can be cheaper because the authority dictates the cost and can choose an arbitrary cheaper rate. Health care costs were extremely low in the Soviet Union. OTHO, a more benign authority might set them somewhat higher a nanny authority with a contingent of golden-goose-egg layers might set them very high. There are, of course, implications to setting an artificially low rate. If cost is the controlling priority, then the implications don't matter.

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