[lbo-talk] Obama?

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Fri Sep 11 09:06:18 PDT 2009


On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Max Sawicky wrote:


> My ten second rap on controlling health care costs is that you have to
> attack providers, rather than reduce care. Cheaper administration,
> prevention, medical records, etc. don't solve the problem.

The canonic Woolhandler/Himmelstein line is that switching to a single payer system would save $400bn annually in adminstrative costs:

http://www.pnhp.org/publications/nejmadmin.pdf

Are you disputing their figures?

Michael



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