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Buzz cook

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15. An over view of Belgiums system.
Mon May 23, 2016, 03:21 PM
May 2016
https://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/fcb50f80-def3-468b-b4dc-0af21010134f.pdf

Your first link doesn't work. Second link doesn't address why single payer is superior to other national systems, eg Germany and Switzerlands regulated private insurance, or Great Britain or France with government provided systems. The final two links are trade specific.

If you like medicare for all or some other flavor of single payer, fine. But imho single payer is not the most effective system. Expanded medicare still is at the mercy of private health care providers.

If you want a path to medicare for all a politically easier way is a public option. Once people get used to the idea that government health insurance is comparable in quality and less expensive than private insurance they're going to be more amenable to single payer.
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