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Our health care system has so many problems that adding this idea would probably cause it to collapse. There are many other things that need to get fixed first.

1. Tort reform is such a huge issue and cost drag on health care. And yes there are those that will claim it's cost it very little and that is so not true. Most doctors and Nurses spend 50% of there time documenting what they do to protect them against law suits. Requirement for needed health documentation? Less then 10% of their time. Add another 40% because of our legal system. Then add on the settlement costs.

2. User paper work for insurance reimbursement. I just can't believe how difficult that has become. I honestly believe they make it as convoluted and esoteric as possible to limit payments. It could be so simple, but they have made it so hard I give up lots of money due because it is so hard to recover.

3. Federal approval of new drugs and procedures. Cost adds on such a significant amount to our drug cost. Just check the price any US drug vs the exact same drug from another country. Anywhere from 100 to 400 times more expensive here. That is just crazy.

There are so many more easy to solve problems, but fix just these 3 and health care cost would be cut in half.

Single payer does nothing to solve these issues and just creates another ballooning government program to continue to drive up the cost. Today more people work in administering health care then work actually doing health care. That would just increase that problem.

And is one more step to socialism. We need to go in the exact opposite direction.