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Posted by Sarah on September 13, 2009, 8:37 pm, in reply to "Re: I wish someone could explain"
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OK - I am sorry I posted the link.
It is a very complicated and depressing assessment.
He says, I think, that if individually we can't afford our health care then we can't collectively afford our collective health care. He says that the health care delivery system is so fundamentally flawed that we can't afford it.
I strongly disagree with his solution which I think would drive most of us into bankruptcy. But if he is right about the costs and how out of control they are it argues more strongly, I think, for a single payer system. That is not his conclusion.
But other societies with single payer systems have held down the costs and provide excellent care. We are smart - can't we figure out a way to do this without bankrupting us as individuals or as a society or leaving the uninsured to die without adequate care?
Sarah
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