> if we just moved to single-payer health care, the role could disappear entirely. I disagree; what is called "single-payer" health care does not solve the act

> if we just moved to single-payer health care, the role could disappear entirely. I disagree; what is called "single-payer" health care does not solve the actual problem, which is that the people who are getting the services, the patients, have no idea what they cost and therefore have no way of knowing whether the services they are getting are worth what they cost. In that environment there will always have to be people whose ostensible job is to control costs, since the normal mechanism of markets that does that is prevented from operating. (Note that similar criticisms could be made of Graeber's own claims.) > It's a bullshit job because it's solving a problem that doesn't need to exist. I agree with this, but not for the reason you give. See above.