In the United States, a legion of administrative healthcare workers and health insurance employees who play no direct role in providing patient care costs every American man, woman and child an average of $2,497 per year.
Across the border in Canada, where a single-payer system has been in place since 1962, the cost of administering healthcare is just $551 per person — less than a quarter as much.published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine, could challenge some assumptions about the relative efficiency of public and private healthcare programs.
Progressive contenders for the Democratic nomination, including Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, are calling for a “Medicare for All” system. More centrist candidates, including former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, have questioned the wisdom of turning the government into the nation’s sole health insurer.It’s been decades since Canada transitioned from a U.S.
“The US is currently wasting at least $600 billion on healthcare paperwork — money that could be saved by going to a simple ‘Medicare for All’ system,” said Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler, a health policy researcher at Hunter College and longtime advocate of single-payer systems.
That's because insurance is a scam.
Canadian here. Wait times in emergency are high, based on priority. Nothing is perfect but no one leaves the hospital with crippling healthcare bills. Or any bills at all.
Yes had a dear friend go in for tonsillitis and after four hours was continuing to text me how awful their system is? This was three weeks ago. For all I know she still there
The cost per person is nowhere near that dichotomy.
US almost has the ten times of Canada’s population. Plus single payer system lacks big time in quality compared to US
This article is ABSOLUTE NONSENSE! More research and data shows how much it wouldn’t work. Data from 2007 showing our health isn’t that diff?! Jesus Christ... Ask any nurse in the US & they will also tell u they don’t want it 🤬 scrowder
Americans from all parties are ready for a fistfight with the Insurance and Pharma lobbies who have been ripping us off for decades. Some things are more important than profit-taking. MedicareForAll
scrowder DEMOLISH THIS ARTICLE!!!
Single payer: sacrifice quality, availability and innovation for the mirage of price control. With single payer there is no real price discovery.
How are their wait times?
Fake news.
The point. Gotta have the greed.
Some people (often uneducated) like those capitalism 'benefits'. More expenses less wealth.
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