Unfortunately those middlemen are bribing the politicians against change.
Well, again, how is a single payer system going to solve that? As long as there’s a government, it can be bribed, and if it’s not the insurance middleman doing it, it will be somebody else. If anything, giving people a single point of access to bribery will make it easier to do so, not harder. The more you centralize power, the easier it is to corrupt.
Again I point to the OECD countries as evidence, not that the problem of bribery, corruption and fat middlemen is solved, but that the US can achieve a 50% reduction in costs.
Well, again, how is a single payer system going to solve that? As long as there’s a government, it can be bribed, and if it’s not the insurance middleman doing it, it will be somebody else. If anything, giving people a single point of access to bribery will make it easier to do so, not harder. The more you centralize power, the easier it is to corrupt.
Again I point to the OECD countries as evidence, not that the problem of bribery, corruption and fat middlemen is solved, but that the US can achieve a 50% reduction in costs.
Sure, and apples can be oranges if they just grow thick, fleshy skin.