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Can you argue with this defintion of a single-payer health insurance?
Single payer health insurance is not socialized medicine, as the Republicans and insurance companies would have you believe. It is single payer, without the intermediary CEO of the insurance company profit and requirements sometimes require the denial of life-saving care to increase corporate profits.
I have to check with Hannity and Limbaugh to see what the topic of conversation for the day is on this topic ….. single-payer saves time. Imagine if all doctors and all hospitals in the U.S. there was only one type of form to complete. And all patients had an insurance card. And all patients had health insurance by virtue of being U.S. citizens. And now think of the savings in time, money, paper pushing. Physicians have more time to care for patients, everyone would have fewer headaches waiting to talk to to demonstrate their HMO coverage, nurses would be less frustrated with their work. single-payer saves money. By having one organization handle all the bureaucracy and all System administration of health care (mostly consisting of paperwork and payments) by pressing paper greatly reduces the frequency and cost. More information of each of our dollars that go toward health care is actually used for health care of people, instead of going to the managers and forms. Single-payer eliminates most of the duplication of paperwork, and in the process, could save hundreds of billions (that is 100,000 million) dollars. As it is now, U.S. companies are at an economic disadvantage because their health costs are much higher than in other countries. The Canadian branches of Ford, GM and Daimler-Chrysler all publicly support Canada's health care system, because it saves them a huge amount of money compared with their counterparts in the U.S.. Moreover, a single payer system will mean less personal bankruptcies due to medical bills – and put an end to patients who actually receive bills. In most countries with single payer system, patients do not see a bill. The billing process does not even involve patients. (This saves money, too – think of how much work will be specified in each bill, sending it to each patient, monitoring the bill, if there was an error … and on and on.) Most single-payer systems save a lot of money by purchasing prescription drugs for their patients in huge bulk. You know the money you save to buy in bulk at Costco or Sam's Club? Think about applying this concept to the purchase of prescription drugs for 290 million people United States. (Hint: This is what Canada does – is what makes their drugs much cheaper.) Single payer saves election. Americans love choices. We love have options. With a single-payer system, patients can go to any doctor you want (Try doing that with your HMO!). You could see the doctor more close to you, we recommend to all your friends, or choose one that is of the same religion, ethnicity or race. It would be a different experience to achieve a given list in your HMO, saying you're allowed to see but want to pay an arm and a leg for it. Even better, people would not be tied to their current job for health insurance it offers. People could find jobs they're happier with or even consider starting their own businesses. That would make the business work harder to make employees happy, and employers could be more confident their workers were a good fit for their jobs.
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Single Payer Health Insurance | PBS
