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Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:26PM (#18719828)
> It works in 36 out of 37 modern OECD nations

The rest of the OECD has universal healthcare, but not necessarily fully public healthcare (the model vary considerably.)

Which just means that there are lots of good proven models that the US could adopt.

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Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills by dv_dt on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:48PM (#18720049)
There are lots of good models which all have in common a strong gov't negotiated price control somewhere in a system driven by universal healthcare principles instead of profit and market oriented principles.
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