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Originally Posted by NCB
We have a national healthcare system in place alreasy in the forms of Medicare and Medicaid. It's being run into the ground and is rampant with fraud. But yet, eventhough that the current program represents 10-20% of the gen pop, the US would be far better off under a single payer system whcih covers 300 million people.
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If you look at it like an insurance company the answer is yes.
You have more people in a larger pool of customers
That lowers the overall risk and therefore the cost per person.
corruption and abuse aside (yes it is a problem)
medicade/medicare is failing because the people using it are sick or old
A program that every citizen is involved in looks much different.
To the origional question.....30 days to live
I would not choose to live my last 30 days in a hospital
I have made arangements to not be in a nursing home,
or convelessant care.
It could be just me....I don't know
I don't want to live in that condition
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