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