• Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    No they can’t. Single payer means that all the control is in the governments hands, because there are plenty of providers and only one payer for the entire 300+ million Americans. This is how single payer works. Medicare does this, for example.

    In the current system there is 0 incentive to lower prices. The incentive becomes to charge as much as will be maximally paid.

    Before you try to argue, the nhs, Canadian healthcare system, and pretty much every developed country that isn’t the US, would like to have a word.