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On Wed, 13 May 2009 02:25:31 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 12 May 2009 22:34:02 -0700, jps wrote:

I honestly don't know what the answer is, but I think I can say that
I'm highly suspicious of any national health care proposal given the
experiences of the average Canadian and British citizens with regard
to this aspect of living.

My biggest complaint is the 33% in average admin costs. The
government does it for medicare for about 2%.

Single payer system is the best answer. No gov't between you and your
doctors. Just eliminate the stinkweeds skimming the admin percentage.

That 2% is a questionable number, very narrowly defined and does not
include the doctor's side of the billing
We have doctors here who discourage medicare customers because the
government paperwork is onerous and they are "slow pay".
That is not saying the insurance companies are any better but I am not
sure the government will be an improvement.

BTW that "administrative cost" is "jobs". What will we do for them if
we put all of those insurance people out of work?

I'd like to know the tradeoff before answering.

In any case, the system needs to become more efficient. Such is the
case that jobs are lost when processes are automated.

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