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Hi Shadow Wolf,
How exactly would the government lower the costs of healthcare?
First, you eliminate an entire industry that provides no care to anyone, and earns enormous profits--the health insurance industry. Second, you provide managed, comprehensive care to everyone, so that instead of people getting expensive emergency room care for conditions that could have been prevented through reasonably priced clinical care, you spend less to get more sooner. Third, you encourage preventative care, which saves money later. Fourth, the government uses its tremendous bargaining power to negotiate lower costs from health insurance providers, especially pharmaceutical companies. Fifth, you reduce administrative costs. (Governmental administrative costs are a fraction of industry costs.) Sixth, you reduce legal costs, especially for defending bad faith claims. Seventh, you reduce administrative duplication, even by medical providers, because there is only one administrative agency, so you don't have to submit or have people review multiple bills and paperwork. Those are the main ways I'm aware of.
Because the fact is, universal health care costs about half as much as the U.S. "system." Is it important enough to you to have private health insurance for all of us to pay twice as much for health care that only some of us get?