The eye-popping cost of Medicare for All

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96. Shop around for MRI?

LOL. Cheap where? Billy's Imaging?

I just had a routine medical procedure done. Believe me, I would rather have it done by properly compensated professionals than by someone offering a bargain basement price.

What you seem to gloss over is nations that have lower healthcare costs sunk money into infrastructure years ago, when building out that infrastructure was far less expensive than today. You mention economy of scale, have you ever heard of incremental expenditures? Both are vital to business and societal success. When money is put into structures and systems that are going to last decades, then the incremental costs of keeping those structures and systems up to date are vastly lower than it would be for building out those structures and systems from scratch. Also, "economy of scale" is really a poor example when talking about an issue such as Health statistics. Economy of scale assumes that output is equal, that is a wrong assumption when talking about people's health, where the range of people's health conditions is enormous.

Don't take me wrong. I absolutely love the concept of a universal system where costs can be averaged (i.e., take advantage of the system containing really healthy people who cost almost nothing to offset the costs of expenses for people that have bad health or are gravely ill). In our system today insurance companies have split up the herd and are overcharging each piece of it, an end needs to be put to that, the question is how.