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bladerunner1717

06/25/09 7:32 PM

#79976 RE: DewDiligence #79970

Dew,

Liberal analysts argue that about 30% can be saved from healthcare just in administrative costs, if a public option is available. That squares nicely with your figures. Even though some right-wing ideologues on this board refuse to acknoledge it, Medicare is three to ten times more administratively efficient (depending on which analysis you go by), cost-wise, than the private insurers. I have not seen one single thoughtful conservative economist dispute these numbers.


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DewDiligence

03/08/11 3:57 PM

#116119 RE: DewDiligence #79970

Stories like this one make a single-payer healthcare system look good by comparison:

http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2011/03/blue_cross_susp.html