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To: slacker711 who wrote (51426)	3/3/2008 12:29:49 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541874

The 20% in savings that they are talking about isnt from cutting paperwork, it is about cutting treatments that dont seem to work. That isnt going to get any easier in a single-payer system. Yep, knew that. But the forecasted paperwork savings in a single payer system as opposed to the present system are large. And obvious. The problem is the political will to get there. On the issue of cutting treatments that don't seem to work, that's a problem regardless of system. The first step, in a democratic system, would be establishing that the medical community could make such a judgment, such that the wishes of desperate patients could be overridden. Not easy at all.