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ScratchMonkey
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| kxmode wrote: | | You're 17 years old. You haven't lived long enough to know what the heck you're talking about. Wait about 10 years, then come back and have an intelligent comment. |
When I was 17, I couldn't wait to get out of the hands of my parents and attain independence. Then I left home, straight into the entangling embrace of mama government. So much for getting loose from apron strings. |
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Electric_Kite
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Location: crashing to the ground
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http://www.pnhp.org/
Seriously. Read it. They have done the math. The cite their sources. They make sense.
http://www.pnhp.org/facts/singlepayer_faq.php
The United States has the most bureaucratic health care system in the world. Over 31% of every health care dollar goes to paperwork, overhead, CEO salaries, profits, etc. Because the U.S. does not have a unified system that serves everyone, and instead has thousands of different insurance plans, each with its own marketing, paperwork, enrollment, premiums, and rules and regulations, our insurance system is both extremely complex and fragmented.
The Medicare program operates with just 3% overhead, compared to 15% to 25% overhead at a typical HMO. Provincial single-payer plans in Canada have an overhead of about 1%.
It is not necessary to have a huge bureaucracy to decide who gets care and who doesn’t when everyone is covered and has the same comprehensive benefits. With a universal health care system we would be able to cut our bureaucratic burden in half and save over $300 billion annually. |
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