On the way home from work this morning NPR had a lobbyiest for private for profit hospitals. His opposition to letting people decide on their own between a public plan and private plans is that medicare/medicaid currently underpays them as it is...
No... they do what walmart does to get you cheap soap... negotiate... purchasing power... cutting into profits is what we have to do to get our health care costs under control.
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IOUSA Budget Deficit Calculator allows you to see what the projected U.S. budget deficit would be, as a percentage of GDP, if the United States had the same per person health care costs as various other countries which enjoy longer life expectancies than the United States.
The U.S. health system spends a higher portion of its gross domestic product than any other country but ranks 37 out of 191 countries according to its performance ---World Health Organization
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