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A nation-wide single player system is about the least effective approach to healthcare that can possibly exist in terms of the cost-to-effect ratio.
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There are a variety of obvious reasons why a consolidated universal healthcare system would be superior to the USA's broken private sector mess:
- Do away with wasted money spent on marketing. Individual insurance companies can spend over a billion dollars a year on marketing. The catchiness of a TV jingle or the humour of Youtube video an insurance company hopes will go viral and get them more customers (and therefore more money) does nothing to reduce the cost of healthcare or help keep you healthy - in fact the opposite as it's money that could have gone on providing healthcare.
- Economies of scale. The government already gets great savings on drugs, equipment , etc because Medicare is such a huge client for customers. Additionally it can get rid of redundancies like a hundred different insurance companies all having departments doing the same work which could be more efficiently handled under the aegis of a single organisation.
This is why even right-wing think tanks doing their best to tear down the idea of a more public healthcare system have found that such ideas would save people trillions of dollars.
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