Single-payer health would cover all, save up to $1G/yr in Massachusetts

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Margaret wrote:
> 
> According to 2 recent independent studies commissioned
> by the Mass. Medical Society, and leaked to the Boston
> Globe.  The groups were the Lewin Group, and a group
> combining researchers from Solutions for Progress of
> Phila.  and the Boston U. Sch. of PH.
> 
> The savings would range from $170M to $1G.
> 
> 'It's not working, and [the opponents of single-payer]
> are going to have to re-think their position'
> -- Arnold S. Relman, MD, emeritus ed-in-chief of the
> NEJM & member of the Society's House of Delegates
> 
> A single-payer scheme would save admin costs in the
> range $2.5G -  $3.6G in Mass. in '99 alone,
> 
> "The [current system] has been the preferred policy"
> -- Frank Fortin, Dir. Comm. for MMS
> 
> "The AMA is currently opposed to a single-payer system"
> -- Nancy Dickey, MD, President of the AMA
> 
> Mass. Assn of HMOs did not return the Globe's
> comment-seeking phonecall.

This is confusidng with the limited amount of information you provide.
If you have more detailed info I'd appreciate hearing more. 

Thanks
Brad Hatch