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Is it necessarily the case that median physician pay must go down for a single-payer system? I would hope that we could have savings if the total payments to ac
by abeppu 3y ago
Is it necessarily the case that median physician pay must go down for a single-payer system? I would hope that we could have savings if the total payments to actual care providers was similar, but billing, and insurance parts of the system were dropped out of the picture.
- Scoundreller 3y agoThe numbers I can quickly Google for US are ~15-30% spent on administration, not that those zero out under single-payer. It's not just the physician/surgeon aspect of US healthcare that's expensive, it's all of it. I'm on the Canadian side, and drugs have never been single-payer outside of a hospital, but that leg of the system is still much cheaper (on average) in Canada.