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Hospitals won’t tell you what a procedure costs before they do it.
“Even doctors often do not know the costs of the tests and procedures they prescribe. When Dr. Michael Collins, an internist in East Hartford, Conn., called the hospital that he is affiliated with to price lab tests and a colonoscopy, he could not get an answer. “It’s impossible for me to think about cost,” he said. “If you go to the supermarket and there are no prices, how can you make intelligent decisions?”
“Instead, payments are often determined in countless negotiations between a doctor, hospital or pharmacy, and an insurer, with the result often depending on their relative negotiating power. Insurers have limited incentive to bargain forcefully, since they can raise premiums to cover costs.”http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/health…

These answers are just plain sad. These answerers clearly got these strawman arguments of single payer from Rush Limbaugh so I’m going to refute some of these claims:
@Andrew: It does not create a monopoly by any means. All it does is assure all people that they have the right to healthcare nomatter how much they make. Health insurance is still optional with countries that have single payer, and their insurance rates tend to be much cheaper as a result of competing with the government. (Ironically, insurance companies are ones with the monopolies on peoples’ healthcare.)
“Just look at markets where the government hasn’t gotten involved and no monopolies have been created..” You idiot, every 1st world nation on Earth provides healthcare for their citizens.
@Kathryn: “You’ll have to get an answer from someone who lives in one of those broke countries across the ocean. You know, England, France, Italy – where they are cutting health care benefits like crazy because they finally ran out of other peoples money.”
This is funny stuff. Cutting health benefits? France has the #1 rated healthcare system in the world. England’s NHS and Italy’s program work just fine as well. The best part is how we spend 24% of our federal budget on healthcare when countries that provide single payer only use 10%. You claim to be a conservative, but apparently you have no problem with spending 14% extra (for worse service) on healthcare.
@Jimmy: “the advantages are that the government pays your medical bills! The DISadvantages are that by letting government pay the bills government gets to tell you how to live, what to eat, what car you can drive, how often and with whom you have sex …”
Ah yes, the good ole’ slippery slope fallacy. I had no idea that reforming healthcare and allowing all people to have access to healthcare would naturally lead to a totalitarian society where the secret police monitor and decide everything for you including who you have sex with. As you all know, that’s what left wingers are big on, they always try to pass laws that attempt to legislate morality (Sarcasm).