Source is my own lived work experience. In the healthcare companies I've worked in, the size of teams to investigate benefit coverage, to bill, and then to nag

Source is my own lived work experience. In the healthcare companies I've worked in, the size of teams to investigate benefit coverage, to bill, and then to nag insurers to actually pay us works out to roughly 15% of the total staff. This is where _providers_ are about 25% of staff. Add to those salaries the costs of the tools we have to employ to manage it all, track it, and management of all of those folks, and it bloats the cost by 20%. We're actually working with an AI company to build a tool that uses AI and lots of data to predict with better accuracy benefit coverage. All because insurers want barriers to treatment to lower their costs. If we went single payer, we would virtually eliminate benefits investigation teams because Medicare is honestly super easy to determine benefits of a patient unless they're on the private Medicare Advantage plans. We could eliminate the need to work with clearing houses as we'd have one payor, not hundreds of payors each with dozens of plans and single-case agreements. RCM departments would shrink because with one payor, providers wouldn't have to constantly nag payors to actually send the money. The admin overhead is sickening.