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In response to "We need single-payer coverage as soon as possible. -- nm" by Don Homer

Counterpoint: healthcare costs are not necessarily cured by removing what few actual market pressures still exist in the system.

Posted by TFox May 15 '09, 08:43

Or, in other words, removing competition between insurers, on top of all the other legislative things that mask actual heathcare costs as they are consumed, take an inefficient model and make it way way moreso.

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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

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Counterpoint: healthcare costs are not necessarily cured by removing what few actual market pressures still exist in the system.

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