The US healthcare system is the most complex single entity in the Milky Way galaxy. It cost 17.7 percent of GDP in 2017, a lot more than the military which it is fashionable to bash as expensive and inefficient.
It should cost about 10 percent of GDP, largely due to the amazing mass of contradictions it contains and the fractal nature of the way it is administrated.
Elizabeth Warren blew her chances of becoming President when she stated the way to fix it was to give it a lot more money.
The US healthcare system is overall a government run monopoly, obedient to the huge healthcare lobby.
No, it isn't, far from it. Apart from some aspects of Medicare and the healthcare provided to the military, US health care is a hodgepodge of private interests.
Single payer is not government run, but it cuts out the middlemen insurance people who are not helping anyone but themselves and their investors.So both groups, the Right saying we need more competition and that will lower costs, and the Left saying government run medicine would save money, are both correct,
A single payer would also be able to negotiate much better rates by sheer scale. But that's still very different from a government run system like the UK.Single payer is not government run, but it cuts out the middlemen insurance people who are not helping anyone but themselves and their investors.
Your questionnaire is Probably a fund-raising gimmick. Did they ask for a donation or membership? I get one of these about every month. First, the questions are meaningless because they just want your money. Second, returning the thing guarantees you’ll get more political mail.I was asked in a questionnaire:
Do you agree with President Trump that hard-working Americans should be allowed to keep more of the money they earn?
The government doesn’t run it. It would be more accurate to say a cabal of companies does so.The US healthcare system is overall a government run monopoly, obedient to the huge healthcare lobby.
Your questionnaire is Probably a fund-raising gimmick. Did they ask for a donation or membership? I get one of these about every month. First, the questions are meaningless because they just want your money. Second, returning the thing guarantees you’ll get more political mail.
I live to serve.You hit the nail on the head! At the end it asked for money, as much as possible.
The government doesn’t run it. It would be more accurate to say a cabal of companies does so.