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SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE - Medicare for all.

X + 0 < X+Y

This is the simplest way to illustrate the central problem in healthcare costs in the USA versus literally anywhere else in the civilized world...

X = cost of healthcare service
0 = nothing added to the cost for margins
Y = every single dollar added to the compensation of lnsurance executives and costs

There is simply no way to legitimately compete with a non-profit, government administered service for something like health care. The insurance companies see ZERO patients, make ZERO diagnoses, contribute nothing to patient care or outcomes and actually suck up HUGE AMOUNTS OF CASH to find ways to guide healthcare premiums from doctors, hospitals and patients to CEOs, ad campaigns and lobbyists.

If we killed private health insurance for all non-elective and acute care (ERs, emergency surgeries, cancer and chronic disease treatments) and left them the plastic surgery and optional gender-affirming care (like nose jobs, BOTOX, lip fillers, etc.) two things would happen right away.

1) Total costs for the overall system would drop - roughly by the amount the create vampire insurer scum suck out of the system.
2) Patient outcomes and preventative medicine would improve majorly.