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Originally Posted by Chief Rum
The real problem in the health care system is rhe excessive bloat worked into the system by every partner in it, including hospitals/doctors, health insurers and Big Pharma. They are all complicit in keeping the costs of health care higher than they should be so that they can pass those costs on to consumers while raking in profits.
Until we fix that, no matter what healthcare delivery and payment system we decide on will be a mere bandaid.
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This is true but Medicare by its sheer size and influence forces many of those costs down if you want to work with medicare and accept medicare patients. I believe a lot of that naturally goes away in a single payer system.