Reply #13: Estimates of U.S. Health Care Administrative Savings from Transition to Canadian Style Single Payer

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Study

Sheils JF, Young GJ, Rubin RJ, “O Canada: Do We Expect Too Much from Its Health System?” Health Affairs, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 1992, pp. 8–20.

Administrative Cost Savings

89.1 billion

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Study

GAO, Canadian Health Insurance: Estimating the Costs and Savings for the United States, Washington, D.C., GAO/HRD–92–93, April 1992.


Administrative Cost Savings

$127.1 billion

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Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU, "The Deteriorating Administrative Efficiency of the US Health Care System," New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 324, No. 18, May 2, 1991, pp. 1253–1258.

Administrative Cost Savings

$209.3–$253.3 billion

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Study

Aaron HJ, "The Costs of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada—Questionable Answers to a Questionable Question," New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 349, No. 8, August 21, 2003, pp. 801–803.

Administrative Cost Savings

$213.3 billion

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Study

Woolhander S, Campbell T, Himmelstein DU, "Costs of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada," New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 349, No. 8, August 21, 2003, pp. 768–775.


Administrative Cost Savings

$280.4 billion