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To: Metacomet who wrote (236383)11/1/2013 11:53:55 AM
From: neolib  Respond to of 543020
 
The 20% sucked out by insurance as overhead and profit is trivial compared to the destructive effect of indirect payment and consumption which both insurance and tax-based single-payer systems suffer from. You have to address the disconnect in payment vs consumption to have any hope of containing costs.