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Re:The Indian government is set to endorse Universal Basic I... by woofyman on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @11:58AM (#13319887)
>Savings from shuttered entitlement programs: Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, ACA subsidies: $938 billion

You're proposing eliminating the health care of 120 million people? What we really need is universal, single payer health care.

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Re:The Indian government is set to endorse Universal Basic I... by tzs on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @12:23PM (#13320111)
> What we really need is universal, single payer health care.

Why does it need to be single payer? Multi-payer systems can achieve universal or near universal coverage at good costs. See, for example, Germany or Japan.

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