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Private insurance companies have earned the public’s distrust. They routinely put profitability above their policyholders’ well-being. And a system of private health insurance provision also has higher administrative costs than a single-payer system, in which the government is the sole insurer.
But the avarice and inefficiencies of private insurers are not the sole — or even primary — reasons why vital medical services are often unaffordable and inaccessible in the United States. The bigger issue is that America’s health care providers — hospitals, physicians, and drug companies — charge much higher rates than their peers in other wealthy nations.
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insuranceinsidious corporations claim they’re protecting the common people from greedy doctors, I’ll believe the doctors’ point of view.It’s not even corporate insurance vs doctors. It’s corporate insurance vs corporate hospital who employ the doctors. A lot of doctors are pushed to up the numbers of patients they see by their corporate bosses even when everyone knows that will mean worse care.