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"However, I think that we should at least establish that government should be out of any healthcare programs."
Why? Medicare has 3% overhead; private insurance a 19-33% rakeoff. My state employee "single-payor" self-ensured option costs one-third that of the private options (because of the elimination of underwriting and profit), allows me to use all licensed providers, allows me to see another doctor/provider if I don't like either the wait time or quality of another, and has a board of consumers and physicians setting the package of reimbursable services. And no governmental entity actually provides any of the care - physicians get to compete head-to-head on the basis of quality.
The Republican CEO of Aetna, one of the largest health insurers in America, says the average wait time for cancer surgery here is now longer than the wait time for elective surgery in Canada. (And that assumes that one has insurance.)
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