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Originally Posted by Derwood
has anyone mentioned that the posted profit margins don't include the millions in bonuses and lobbying?
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Perhaps California should be the test case for single payer. The system in California is arguably the most broken and many insureds are facing large premium increases for valid business reasons. In California they are already moving in that direction, so let's encourage them to do it and let's see what happens in a few years. Let's see if costs go down, let's see if services improve, let's see if the government can do a better job than the private sector. Let's take bonuses and profits out of the picture and give everyone guaranteed heath-care. I am beginning to feel as if it has to be all or nothing, single payer or competitive market, not a hybrid of the two.
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SB 810, The California Universal Healthcare Act, authored by Sen. Mark Leno and sponsored by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU), with broad support among many healthcare, community, and labor groups, will now proceed to a vote by the Assembly, which has passed similar legislation in the past. The bill would establish a single-payer system in California, modeled on the healthcare systems flourishing in virtually all other industrialized nations, where better patient outcomes are achieved at a fraction of the cost of the U.S. system.
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Major Advance for California Healthcare Reform as Senate Passes Medicare for All Legislation | Guaranteed Healthcare