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Ezra Klein: The Truth About Single-Payer Health Care

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iossarian6/07/2011 2:18:25 pm PDT

re: #149 researchok

No, that isn’t what I said.

Consider this: The NHS is the third largest employer in the world, after India Rail and the Chinese army.

The NHS serves a population of a little less than 62 million. And the UK (and now Canada allow citizens to opt out).

Our population is roughly 5 times that.

The idea of a single payer system with our population opens up all kind of problems.

And kids who have asthma but their parents can’t afford to buy them drugs is apparently a lesser problem than figuring out how to run a large organization.