Single-payer is the only ‘trick’ left in this bag of solutions. I agree.
But then, you have to establish cost thresholds for every single procedure. Does anyone really believe that if some gov’t agency dictates a process will cost no more than $550...that the hospital or doctor will just stand there and agree, when the normal expectation is $740.
It’d take five years, but almost every doctor, clinic and hospital would go to a two-star program and offer the same marginal services that you’d find in Bolivia. The only way that you’d get better services? Pay cash to the hospital.
Single-payer in America would be a short-lived solution that gets us out of the Affordable Healthcare Act. Once we realized what marginal care was about and how a government guy dictating our health resources doesn’t work....we’d voice concerns over this.
What’s left? Go back to square one? That’s the comedy of this whole mess. The more you try to fix something...the less capable it is in the end. That’s reality.
Dream on.
Consider how it's worked in Canada and the UK. Admittedly, your average Canuck or Limey is not the equal of a red-blooded American. But Americans elected Barack Obama twice. So, I'm not ready to trust American Exceptionalism on this issue.
Single payer must never be allowed to be tried.
I guess if we're fool enough to do it....