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Originally Posted by rsetterlund

I know there are many opinions both ways on single payer healthcare. Some talk about competition working, well with all the merging of health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and drug stores where is the competition coming from? We are rapidly moving to a single payer system, just a privately run one. I would like to know how much money would be saved if we got rid of all the huge corporations and their corporate staff that are in healthcare insurance companies? I believe we should have a two-tiered system where everyone pays a nominal fee and is covered for catastrophic illnesses with a second tier for those that are willing to pay more and have a higher level of coverage. Today if you are sick you go to the ER, tell them you do not have insurance and they help you with all of us paying the costs. The two-tiered system should be a single payer run by a government-owned private corporation like the Federal Reserve Banking System. That system is self-governing, has plenty of oversight, and is not controlled by the Federal government. Right now the drug and insurance companies set the prices and we just have to pay.

And replace it with a huge government bureaucracy? Basically figure on triple the administrative costs.