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To: Lane3 who wrote (130316)	2/7/2010 4:27:02 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541936

>>The cost of advertising and promotion cannot be attributed to a profit system. My carrier is not-for-profit. It has promotion costs. Those costs are a function of having multiple providers rather than single payer. You cannot attribute them to profit.<< Sure, it's just a function of our having multiple providers. I was saying that the costs of insurance in our system go beyond just the profits made by the insurers. You're correct that many of the big problems we have in our system are related to the fact that there are so many different insurance carriers. A single payer system could be far more efficient.