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We Need Single Payer 0

From the Philadelphia Shrinquirer:

. . . James G. Kahn, a health-policy professor at the University of California in San Francisco, who has studied administrative expenses, estimates that billing costs the nation’s health system up to $400 billion a year, although, obviously, some of that expense is necessary.

“The biggest part is the burden on doctors and hospitals, because they have to deal with literally dozens of health-care plans,” each with its own system, Kahn said.

If only half of that can be saved, that’s $200,000,000,000 that could be spent on actual delivery of care or on other stuff, like food and shelter and research.

And the odds are that much more than that could be saved with a rational system not involving executive country club memberships.

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