Comments on: Demonstrators Rally For Single-Payer Healthcare http://www.wfpl.org/2010/02/25/demonstrators-rally-for-single-payer/ Louisville's NPR News Station Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:27:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lambert strether http://www.wfpl.org/2010/02/25/demonstrators-rally-for-single-payer/#comment-878 lambert strether Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:58:26 +0000 http://www.wfpl.org/?p=13524#comment-878 Single payer would save the country $400 billion A YEAR by eliminating health insurance company profits, CEO salaries and bonuses, and adminsitrative overhead. So, Nancy, sorry to disappoint you, but there's no real connection between single payer and Iraq and Afghanistan -- single payer is so efficient that we could still finance a good chunk of the military with the savings, if that's what we wanted to do. Single payer would save the country $400 billion A YEAR by eliminating health insurance company profits, CEO salaries and bonuses, and adminsitrative overhead.

So, Nancy, sorry to disappoint you, but there’s no real connection between single payer and Iraq and Afghanistan — single payer is so efficient that we could still finance a good chunk of the military with the savings, if that’s what we wanted to do.

]]> By: Jeff W http://www.wfpl.org/2010/02/25/demonstrators-rally-for-single-payer/#comment-877 Jeff W Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:26:56 +0000 http://www.wfpl.org/?p=13524#comment-877 Opponents have it wrong. Those countries with single payer pay far less per capital than the US does and have everyone covered—the US spends roughly two-and-a-half times the OECD average of $2984 and yet almost 45,000 deaths occur in the US attributable to lack of health insurance and 62% of all bankruptcies in the US occur due to medical expenses (and almost three-quarters of those people filing had health insurance). If the US spent two-thirds per capita under a single payer system of what it spends currently , it could have one of the most lavish health care systems in the world, covering everyone, at lower cost. Opponents have it wrong.

Those countries with single payer pay far less per capital than the US does and have everyone covered—the US spends roughly two-and-a-half times the OECD average of $2984 and yet almost 45,000 deaths occur in the US attributable to lack of health insurance and 62% of all bankruptcies in the US occur due to medical expenses (and almost three-quarters of those people filing had health insurance).

If the US spent two-thirds per capita under a single payer system of what it spends currently , it could have one of the most lavish health care systems in the world, covering everyone, at lower cost.

]]> By: nancy thompson http://www.wfpl.org/2010/02/25/demonstrators-rally-for-single-payer/#comment-876 nancy thompson Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:30:11 +0000 http://www.wfpl.org/?p=13524#comment-876 Too expensive for whom? Yes it is expensive; but a single payer plan has to become a part of our society. That is the only way everyone can get equal access to health care. Pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, quit wasting tax payer dollars and provide single payer plan. Too expensive for whom? Yes it is expensive; but a single payer plan has to become a part of our society. That is the only way everyone can get equal access to health care.

Pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, quit wasting tax payer dollars and provide single payer plan.

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