Agreed, it'd be great to have an actuary actually figure this stuff out and provide facts.
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The cross-country comparisons are already in; we spend 2x more for middling outcomes.
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Dyed-in-the-wool D's are happy to tell you about how single-payer "won't work" and swing immediately to moral arguments, not efficiency.
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Never moving the Overton Window is how you wind up playing the other team's game. Mind-boggling.
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That's because neither side agrees with what the goal of "healthcare for America" *is*. If agreed goal were "universal good healthcare"...
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I sense the disconnect is along traditional 'merican lines: "X for me, of course, but not THOSE people" vs. "we're all in this together"
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what is the total cost of an avoidable death?
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Again, that's not currently allowed into our political conversation because _those people_ might get to avoid death too.
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Correct me if I'm wrong; IIUC universal health care *lowers* the country's GDP since the fees becomes internal, not "public market".
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Presumes overhead is an efficient allocation of capital that could not be better placed into other investments -- a ludicrous view
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