I can't believe it!!!!

The problem is not the doctors, or the hospitals, or the big medical companies, or the insurance companies, or obamacare, medicaid, or medicare, or <insert name of evil medical related entity>; it's all of it combined and the number of people it takes for all the handoffs and record keeping and ass covering and profit making. Too many layers. A true government run healthcare system would at least be more cost effective because it would eliminate 2 or 3 of those layers. But simply adding an additional layer in the form of obamacare to regulate/tax an existing system and create additional government jobs only adds cost and complexity, with no benefit to the consumer. It's just dumb.
I'm not for a single-payer system, but on this highlighted point, *in theory* you're not really going to be adding layers and job,s but removing them - the management of the insurance simply switches from multiple companies to one, and the net number of employee salaries paid would go down, not up. And in reality the execution would not likely be from government jobs (e.g. Federal civilian employees) but rather though a contract to a private company because that would be cheaper and easier to change the personnel.

The bigger problem with a single-payer system is lack of competition/incentive to do a good and efficient job.

EDIT I just re-read your post and realized we're on the same page. The problem is in the execution of Obamacare.
Basically what it comes down to is that this *could* be efficient either as full competition w/ minimal regulation OR a single-payer, purely gov-run deal, but it's impossible for something in between to work out.
 
I never said it would be good, just better. And thats from a cost standpoint. I think by now you know I'm not a fan of anything being ran by the fedgov.

The regulatory burden only gets bigger. Costs go up, not down.
 
The regulatory burden only gets bigger. Costs go up, not down.
But I would argue that the pre-Obamacare medical system was already burdened by regulations and medicare/medicaid based price fixing and manipulation, state insurance comissions, etc, and that Obamacare is just an additional burden on top of an overly governmentized system. Eliminating all of the overlapping regulations and handoffs would theoretically make things cleaner and more efficient, since there are already multiple hands (including government) in the current and pre-O system.
 
Google Christian Healthcare Ministries. Kind of insurance, kind of not. If you get it pm me, I think I might get a discount for a referral if you sign up. I pay $85/month for myself
My sister was just telling me about this. It also qualifies to keep you from being fined. That is until the gov't figures out that it's actually affordable....
 
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