Not even close to the same scale. Single payer is a type of universal healthcare. In a nutshell, it means that a single entity is contracted to provide healthcare. They would need some admin, but nothing to the scale that the US system has. With a single payer system, there wouldn't be the need to verify insurance coverage, determine costs, etc. It is what it is.

You're the one listening to the same politicians who've literally told you they won't solve any problems.

And yet you think they'll protect you from the big, bad, foreign boogeyman.

I'm tempted to say something like "you can't possibly be that stupid," but clearly you can. How unsurprising it is to find that you're also a gun nut.

No. The healthcare isn't more expensive. The fact it is both for profit and has absurd administrative costs is what drives prices up.

Health Insurance is something you have to get like any other type of insurance, paying a monthly fee (or getting someone like your employer to pay it for you) and all the fun of shopping around and discovering what is and isn't covered, and what other catches might exist.

By contrast, for example, I had my appendix removed. I'm a Canadian citizen. Was in and out of the hospital, never even discussed a bill or price. Procedure was basically paid for by my (and everyone else's) taxes. Everyone is covered for life-saving procedures for sure at any hospital.

This one is pretty trivial. The result will be the same be it plane, train or a boat.

A little bit trickier puzzle: What would happen if I had a big enough airplane to fly a small helicopter or a drone inside. Will the plane become lighter?

> A lot of large companies would suddenly not be needed, which would cause a very large number of people to be suddenly unemployed.

This is the worst reason ever. The true reason why the US cannot change is that those huge companies lobby the sh*t out of politicians and spend billions on spreading propaganda such as that.

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> Delusional people are often unaware that they're deluded.

People who aren't delusional are also often unaware that they're deluded.

>For example, you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to be manipulated by a bunch of jingoist politicians taking straight from the McCarthy playbook, just two days after our latest all-American homegrown slaughter.

Damn, then it's a good thing I'm not being manipulated in such a way, isn't it?

Listen, if you want to talk guns, I'm game, but calling me deluded and stupid isn't a good opener.

Nor is implying that America is somehow "uncivilized" for not doing things like banning "assault weapons" and "high-capacity magazines" and whatnot.

Delusional people are often unaware that they're deluded. For example, you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to be manipulated by a bunch of jingoist politicians taking straight from the McCarthy playbook, just two days after our latest all-American homegrown slaughter.

A slaughter that doesn't happen in civilized countries.

New century, same dumbasses.

That is a lot I didn’t know, thanks for answering. Do the countries with single payer insurance have similar networks?

> Lie to yourself all you want. I don't have to indulge your delusion.

Fortunately, I'm not lying, and there's no "delusion" you have to indulge.

>Who is more likely to actually hurt you, the terrible Red Communist menace, or the nutjob who bought a gun with no trouble and decided he needed to rob a 7-11 for his next fix?

Let me guess: your solution lines up roughly with what's coming out of the Democrat thoughtspace.

>And which of these problems is Congress more interested in actually fixing?

The deadlock is because Democrats don't actually want to "solve a problem," and they get pushback on it, as they rightfully should.

You know you can burn out water right?

Nah. Those are just differently flavored blood.

I work in content personaliation engines. If one had control over your data and provide recommendations on what you watch, they can brainwash you to do whatever they want.

They can make you a porn addict. Or a Jehovah's witness.

They can make you take the side they choose in any topic.

They can manipulate you on who you vote.

Our own governments have been doing this for 50 plus years, but now Tick Tok allows the control to cross international boundaries.

By the Way, China doesn't allow their data to get out of China either

Ah yes how I wanted to end my day, foot tacos and the cumbox

Two 492 cc bags of silicone. Not that cool. Sort of regretting taking them now Lol

Edit: it was a useful tool to explain what surgery monk had to our kid

Take photos and post them here, of course!!

...can I have my organs under the assumption I will be eating them...?

Not even close. There is a whole industry within the industry. Insurance companies have sales teams who are responsible for bringing in new hospitals to be "in network" as well as bringing in new employers and private citizens to use their insurance over someone else's. Then think about every insurance company and the amount of people in leadership roles that would no longer be needed - thousands of C level and VP level executives who "run" the various companies that wouldn't be needed anymore.

Then you have all of the customer service agents who answer questions about coverage to customers. Then you have a whole bunch of folks, like my wife, whose sole job is to verify that your insurance will cover the procedure you just scheduled for yourself.

Then you have all of the various ancillary jobs associated with those roles, admin, IT, etc. Not to mention all of the people that work for drug and equipment companies who "lobby" the insurance companies to cover certain drugs and what the costs would be.

Then you look at how many companies are in the industry to make a profit - drug companies for example. You start dictating to them at the government level how much they can charge for a drug or piece of equipment, suddenly they don't have an incentive to innovate and so people are laid off.

Medicine is a big business machine in the US.

Look up largest employers by state, so many of them are hospital networks. A lot of those jobs are admin related to dealing with the insurance companies.

Ahh thank you and here in the US, it's different, usually there are requirements and is often separate depending on income and much expensive?

They can give it to you sealed in a tube filled with alcohol

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