Re: A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal hea
In essence there would be no net increase in costs. We are already paying for single payer and not getting it.
I am rather tired of the go to guns attitude of your posts. The vitriol does nothing to advance the discussion.
Please see:
PNHP Co-founders Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein published this definitive study of the administrative costs of the U.S. health system in the August 21, 2003 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. After analyzing the costs of insurers, employers, doctors, hospitals, nursing homes and home-care agencies in both the U.S. and Canada, they found that administration consumes 31.0 percent of U.S. health spending, double the proportion of Canada (16.7 percent). Average overhead among private U.S. insurers was 11.7 percent, compared with 1.3 percent for Canada’s single-payer system and 3.6 percent for Medicare. Streamlined to Canadian levels, enough administrative waste could be saved to provide compressive health insurance to all Americans.
Read
“Costs of Health Administration in the U.S. and Canada” (pdf)
at:
http://www.pnhp.org/publications/nejmadmin.pdf for a full discussion of the impact on administrative waste on health care finance.
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