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TheresNoMoney
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Junior Chimp
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« on: March 28, 2006, 05:43:37 PM »
The private health insurance is incredibly wasteful and inefficient, and this is reflected in the soaring costs.
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TheresNoMoney
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2006, 05:59:14 PM »
Quote from: A18 on March 28, 2006, 05:46:26 PM
Uh, we do not have a free market in health care. It is loaded with government distortions. How stupid some people are is highly amusing: "government is more efficient than private enterprise."

This has been explained a hundred times on this forum.

Private health insurance has administrative/overhead costs of 25%-30%, while Medicare/Medicaid has administrative/overhead costs of 2%-5%. Now tell me which one is more efficient??
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TheresNoMoney
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2006, 06:15:04 PM »
You're clueless on this issue, A18.

You're only going by your strict ideology.
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TheresNoMoney
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2006, 11:35:17 PM »
The right loves to demonize lawyers, but the reality is that lawsuits/legal costs account for less than 1% of health insurance costs.
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2006, 02:23:46 PM »
Quote from: Nym90 on April 02, 2006, 06:17:27 PM
Good point, John. The best long term solution is to emphasize and promote prevention, rather than focusing solely on cure.

The current system discourages prevention. A single-payer system would do just the opposite.
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