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by ForHackernews 3094 days ago
> Create a new single payer healthcare system that is completely separate from anything existing now.

We don't have to create some new system from scratch. Medicare already exists, and it's extremely efficient[0]. Medicare-for-everyone is arguably the best path forward to a national healthcare system.

[0] https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20110920.01339...

> According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, administrative costs in Medicare are only about 2 percent of operating expenditures. Defenders of the insurance industry estimate administrative costs as 17 percent of revenue.