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In reply to the discussion: European-style welfare states are lovely! [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)the lower the costs for everyone on a per capita basis.
Universal single payer could run, like Medicare, on a 3-4% overhead where the average for-profit vampire insurance company has 25-35% overhead - hey those $100 million compensation packages for the pigs at the top and those corporate jets have to be paid for by SOMEBODY, ya know. Even many doctors realize this - both doctors and patients are getting royally screwed by the middlemen in the current system that benefits only those who never treat a patient and do less than nothing to protect or preserve the health of the people.
These facts are impossible to ignore. And defending the "freedom" to die for want of medical treatment is not an argument I would care to make to Jefferson, Franklin, or either of the Roosevelts.