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Argument: Private healthcare providers are more expensive than public providers

Issue Report: Single-payer universal health care

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  • Physicians for a National Health Program: “The US spends twice as much as industrialized nations on health care, $7,129 per capita. Yet our system performs poorly in comparison and still leaves 47 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered. This is because private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $350 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.”

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