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Re:I'm a Brit and America, your health care system is tortur... by dragonwriter on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:17PM (#18828676)
> Medicare also overpays for care and responds to the same structural wackiness the rest of us deal with.

Medicare isn't a closed system, and isn't the majority of funding, so it has to deal with the structural results of the rest of the system, which is majority private pay (and heck, Medicare itself is a partially-subsidized private-insurance voucher system with a public option for it's core services, which exclude prescription drug coverage, which is provided through an optional partially-subsidized private voucher with no public option.)

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Re:I'm a Brit and America, your health care system is tortur... by tptacek on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:22PM (#18828714)
Help me understand what exactly, in broad strokes, a single-payer system adopted in the US in 2019 would do to correct those structural problems?

(I asked roughly the same question upthread a few minutes earlier, so if you answer there, I'll see that answer and consider it an answer to this question too. Thanks!)

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