[lbo-talk] TNR: universal health care now! or how to work for Wal-Mart

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 17 07:40:19 PST 2006


Doug Henwood wrote:


>That would still be massively inefficient. Patchwork schemes like
>this have much higher administrative costs, and are far more
>complicated for people to deal with, than a simple universal public
>program.

And I forgot to mention the efficiency gains from global budgeting - the monopsony power of a single purchaser negotiating lower prices on drugs, equipment, and services. There's a good reason why drugs cost less in Canada.

Doug



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