Universal Health Care Saves $$ By…

These are condensed comments from here.

There are basically four ways a single-payer system could save money. Each is related to simplification. Complexity is very expensive – in time, people, resources, and opportunity costs.

Downsizing Bureaucracy
Information Sharing
Tort Reform
Rationing (or whatever politically acceptable term you want)

Bottom line:
Universal health care funded through some form of a single payer-type system could save huge sums of money if and only if:
• The new system is uncharacteristically simple, not overlaid with complexities, extraneous issues and separate agendas;
• We are willing to give pink slips to tens of thousands of US workers;
• We implement an effective national health information sharing system;
• We scrap the present medical negligence tort system and create something that actually works;
• We accept some form of care rationing; and most important,
• We are prepared for the backlash from numerous special interests.

Are you ready to accept all the necessary consequences in order to have true universal health care?

Other sites I found insightfull are listed below:
"Universal Health Care" Is None Of The Above from "Huffington Post"
No Patient Left behind from "Huffington Post"
Canada's Health System Draws Mixed Reviews From Psychiatrists from "pschiatryonline.org"