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Eh, a significant portion of the first problem is solved by simply having single payer healthcare like most developed countries (except the States) has.

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Or we could simply remove the tax break for employer based healthcare and let the market readjust.

And while we're add it, make health insurance premiums paid by individuals 100% deductable from their federal income tax.

I think this readjustment would tend towards extracting more money from fewer people who can pay and letting the rest go without care.

> remove the tax break for employer based healthcare

This is a big part of the problem, but I don't think it would fix everything by a long shot.

Universal healthcare doesn't necessarily have to be single-payer, lots of countries have multi-payer healthcare systems, like Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Singapore.

In the Netherlands and Switzerland, all health insurance is provided by regulated private payers.

You do realize that in fact most developed countries actually have a healthcare system much like the US. Also most of the countries with a single payer health system have 3rd party health insurance that can be purchased. A true one payor only plan is the exception not the rule.

> You do realize that in fact most developed countries actually have a healthcare system much like the US.

You're gonna have to work a lot harder than you are here to make this point pass muster. It's pretty blatantly untrue.

Yes, supplemental insurance is often a thing that exists. It's generally nothing like the US system's insurance though.

I'm from Denmark, and the fact that certain parts of our healthcare system are not part of the single-payer system, and the fact that you can buy insurance for these things, really really does not make it a healthcare system much like the US'.

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