We Need Single Payer . . . 0
. . . not private armies of clerks:
“We have without any question the most complex, bureaucratic health system in the world. There is just no other nation that spends as much on paper and computers . . . just claims-processing. . . . To my mind, we get very little for that in terms of social value added.”
There is no way that a government system could be as bad as what we have.
Just think: social security recipients get their government checks on time; doctors don’t get the private insurance reimbursement on time.
But I forgot. Government officials don’t get country club memberships from the stockholders.
It is all about the insurance execs’ country club memberships.