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Originally Posted by Lord Larehip
Well, if you can get a law passed that doctors and hospitals get paid by our tax dollars so that we don't have any out of pocket expenses just like the police, most people won't go for it because the tax hike would likely be too much to make it feasible.
But maybe not.
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No, so-called single payer healthcare would actually be cheaper than Obamacare or the old system. With the personal mandate essentially everyone is being taxed for healthcare already, but 20% of what you pay goes towards insurance company bureaucracy and profits, and some say up to a third of what gets paid to hospitals and doctor offices goes towards their financial bureaucracy. A "single payer" system only bills one entity, doesn't have dozens of different policies to interpret, and no-one but the actual people providing care(well also Janitors and cooks etc..) are making money off of it. The problem is just that though-"single-payer" would kill tens if not hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country. That's why it would be so hard to get put into law, and why we have the compromise that is Obamacare.