Posted: Mar 25, 2013 6:21 am
quixotecoyote wrote:Loren Michael wrote:...and of course, single-payer doesn't really address the problem of rising health care costs. The funding mechanism may have some overlap, but I think you're confusing the issue of getting healthcare to people who don't have it with the issue of rising health care costs.
I think there's enough overlap to make it significant. How much of healthcare costs go into actually providing the services versus duplicated processes across competing systems, markups, the entire field of consumer healthcare bill collection, advertising, etc?
I don't know, but I see a lot of unnecessary expense based on the existing funding systems.
That may be, I'm not sure. Certainly a payment mechanism can be incredibly wasteful in and of itself.