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Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by TeMPOraL on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:17PM (#19902877)
Note that as long as you keep the bureaucracy mostly at state level, the argument of scale doesn't apply to the US - seen from the state level, the US is really just 50 small countries in a federation.
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Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by beat on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:32PM (#19903044)
That's a far, far better statement of the problem. We have a system that is subject to both federal and state law.

But I'm not convinced that it's a total explanation, either. Necessary but not sufficient.

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Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by arcticbull on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:41PM (#19903143)
It’s how Canada works too. Federal minimum requirements (the Canada Health Act) implemented at the provincial level.
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