LTE from doctors to Krugman.on single payer

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4. Single payer will do nothing to reduce...

the costs of health care.

Only single provider will. Most doctors are in the 1% and pharma profits are nearly 20% with medical devices close behind.

Health insurance profit levels are between 2 and 3%.

The costs of medical procedures here are 5-to-6 times higher than in other advanced nations.

Blaming the insurance industry is easy and it's simplistic, but the entire health-care delivery system is corrupt.

Single payer is nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

It cannot be done incrementally and it cannot be done with a public option or Medicare for all.

It has to be public health care for all and it has to be done NOW!