[alexqgb]

I'm sorry, but you've completely missed the point of a single-payer system. You don't set one up to get better deals out of insurance companies. Under single payer you put for-profit insurance companies out of business.

Hospitals and pharmaceutical companies then negotiate directly with the state. And as far as what they can be expected to accept without going out of business themselves goes, we can get a pretty good idea from the expenditures of every other OECD country.