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In response to "Health care companies already backpedaling on cost cutting committments. -- (link)" by znufrii

We need single-payer coverage as soon as possible. -- nm

Posted by Don Homer (aka DonHomer) May 15 '09, 08:38

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Counterpoint: healthcare costs are not necessarily cured by removing what few actual market pressures still exist in the system. - TFox May 15, 08:43 5
- except that's not really the case in any single-payer health care system. they're inefficient in entirely different ways. -- nm - mafic May 15, 08:52
- Medicare would disagree. -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 15, 08:51 3
  - Health insurance rates for people on private insurance are higher because Medicare underpays. True fact. - TFox May 15, 08:53 2
    - it's pretty debatable whether medicare underpays, or the care providers just want more money from them. - mafic May 15, 08:56 1
      - I'd say it's a near certainty that Medicare underpays, based on the level of care people expect. We could debate the degree of it for sure. -- nm - TFox May 15, 08:58
it would be nice. -- nm - znufrii May 15, 08:41

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