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[quaker bill]

19. You are dreaming

Child support enforcement, TANF, and food stamps are now administered by subsidiaries of defense contractors. No one builds 1930's style agencies anymore. Services are contracted out.

Which companies have the information resources and personnel to administer healthcare benefits already in place? Any single payer plan will be administered by the insurance companies in this country in practical reality for this century. Many advanced countries do precisely the same. Profits will be controlled in the same manner as ACA does it. The MLR is first step in this direction.

The reason people pay less is that doctors don't get rich, and you don't have hospitals competing to have the very lastest high tech gadget to gain market share. Once you have the 10 million dollar proton beam generator, you better be using it.

Single payer is lovely, but the real deal is to eliminate most of the profit motive behind the disease industry. ACA is a vague start in that direction. I really don't think 25% of the people are now more depressed than 25% of the people were in the 1950s. We are just now pushing more and better drugs for it, there is tons of money to be made in depression.