Yeah, that’s what I mean. If you removed all out-of-pocket expenses for all Americans, there is every reason to think that the government would actually pay less for healthcare. There’s this common sense idea that everything has to be paid for that is far too simplistic for reality. Everything does have to be paid for, but people’s health is going to be paid for one way or another. What we know is that it is far for effective to pay doctor’s salary from taxes than to pay for more work days lost to illness, more serious and frequent emergency treatments, or more disease bodies piling in the street.
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