There is a very good and politically practical reason why “single-payer,” government operated health care didn’t and won’t get off the ground with either party. To wit:
Nearly every medical practice/clinic has one to several people working on “medical billing,” and the “medical billing” departments of hospitals can run from dozens to hundreds of employees. And there are corresponding numbers of workers on the other end at the insurance companies. Then there are all the administrators, lawyers, accountants and others that are ancillary to that business. Any significant streamlining of, let alone the elimination of, the insurance racket would put many or most of these people out of their jobs. That would no doubt add up to an astonishing number of people unemployed if we went to a far more efficient single-payer system. The political implications of that are obvious and unacceptable to both the Demipublicans and Republicrats.
There is a very good and politically practical reason why “single-payer,” government operated health care didn’t and won’t get off the ground with either party. To wit:
Nearly every medical practice/clinic has one to several people working on “medical billing,” and the “medical billing” departments of hospitals can run from dozens to hundreds of employees. And there are corresponding numbers of workers on the other end at the insurance companies. Then there are all the administrators, lawyers, accountants and others that are ancillary to that business. Any significant streamlining of, let alone the elimination of, the insurance racket would put many or most of these people out of their jobs. That would no doubt add up to an astonishing number of people unemployed if we went to a far more efficient single-payer system. The political implications of that are obvious and unacceptable to both the Demipublicans and Republicrats.
And so it goes…