Jesus Christ. The Mississippi Delta isn't poor because of medical debt, you ignorant child.
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Caused by the system, yes. Health insurers and doctors are both products of that system and both operate within it in ways that are bad for patients. If one is a parasite, both are.
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Doctors do in fact overcharge insurers systematically. This is another perverse incentive created by the American health insurance system, one which contributes to people's deaths. Therefore, like insurers, doctors and HCPs generally are worthless parasites which should be abolished.
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I think that the biggest reason the US has the lowest life expectancy of the rich countries is that we're much more sedentary than them and we have drastic areas of poverty, both racialized and non-racialized, neither of which single-payer systems would directly interact with.
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I guess doctors are also worthless parasites because they overcharge insurers, creating negative value by draining money from people who might need it. We don't need doctors, clearly.
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I guess you don't understand what "generate value" means. Take your participation trophy and go.
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A single-payer system does the exact same things and so would also generate negative value.
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But that government would simply be performing the role of parasitic middleman.
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They thus generate value in the same way a trucker does, or the engineer on a freight train does.
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They generate value by pooling people together so that people who are healthy at the moment pay for the healthcare of people who are unhealthy at the moment, allowing those people to live better and longer lives. In a single-payer system, this would be a government agency filling that same role.