roughly 30% of the cost of healthcare is insurance company and hospital staff arguing about who should pay for stuff. another decent chunk (that isn't typically

roughly 30% of the cost of healthcare is insurance company and hospital staff arguing about who should pay for stuff. another decent chunk (that isn't typically reported) is the cost of judges and lawyers to administer bankruptcy proceedings. getting rid of all the beurocracy would absolutely bring costs down. in fact, one of the hardest parts of single payer healthcare is that moving there quickly would likely cause a recession due to the ~5% of the population that would be laid off