This $55,000 Bill Is The Perfect Example Of Our Broken Hospital System

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7. One of the main differences bearing in mind the subject of the OP is cost

is that expenditure / prices are dictated by the government at acceptable levels. Generally speaking our consultant surgeons through to local doctors/general practitioners etc don't work for the government : they do work on behalf of the NHS and invoice accordingly.

Even when work is done on behalf of a private insurance companies here the price structure has been pre-agreed - there's no piss taking.

btw - your expression "single payer" baffled me completely at first because to me it conveys the payer of the insurance tax and not the government in receipt of such payment from the population and their employers. It defeats me that you didn't get anyway - you may have no idea the affect it would've had on employment in the US. If you scale this up you'll see what I mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers