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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (897118)10/29/2015 12:13:13 PM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) of 1574275
 
Yes, the single payer known as "Medicare" has worked out mighty well. After a mere 50 years in existence, it is more than 50 Trillion in debt. And that is with massive subsidies received from the privately insured in the form of cost shifts.


Medicare would qualify as a single payer system if it was (largely) the only system of health insurance in the nation. But we know it is not since it only serves a certain demographic segment of the citizenry...any references to the effectiveness of Medicare relative to a national single payer system are either naive or political obfuscation. There are a number of reasons that US health care costs are much higher than they are in other countries...the mere fact that Medicare is not fully funded in an overpriced health care market does not mean that it's not an effective delivery mechanism not does it mean that a national single payer system is to be dismissed on its basis.

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