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Originally Posted by George O Well
>>>I'm not Quinn, but the reason that health care is so expensive and quality so poor is that capitalists at every level of the system (including the boatloads of lawyers and accountants) are taking their own huge chunks out of it. They've had their chance. They blew it. Now it's on to single payor. I'm tired of buying Gulfstreams for these idiots.
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Certainly there are administrative costs, but in the worse case they are a relatively small portion of the total cost. Medicare claims to have very low costs, but they do not include many expenses such as their own advertising, plus with so much Medicare fraud and now we find not monitoring the volume of care rendered wasting an estimated $50 billion in the last few years, perhaps more should be spent on the administration.
Single payor will solve nothing except the universal coverage issue and while that sounds appealing, unless we deal with the real costs, a single payor system will make things worse
OR to control costs it will mean a fixed budget for health care and no more spent and that means some form of rationing.
It simply does not add up that we can have it all and pay for it all and go where we want when we want and to the doctor we want and think we can afford all of it. We can't, that is the simple truth.
So, where are the tradeoffs?