Yuratuhl wrote:
You can be both corrupt and non-profit, the two aren't mutually exclusive. That's a different discussion, however.
Anyway, no one's arguing any government is administratively perfect, but a system under which the government controls the bureaucracy behind health services and ensures people's costs are fully funneled into actual care, rather than advertising and corporate bonuses for executives, is bound to be more efficient no matter how you look at it. The entire point is to cut out the middleman who skims (insert percent here) off the top.
Middlemen are functionally useless. Insurance companies with profit motive are middlemen.
How are government functionaries any less 'middle men' than insurance functionaries? Administrative costs associated with government programs far exceed their private sector non-profit counterparts in this country. By what logic should we assume that healthcare will be different? --Jubber
