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Perfectly. Wow. You've confused a single-payer system with mandated-coverage for-profit insurance companies...that will somehow be forced by regulation to "optimize"...cost? Yeah. What's the CEO of UnitedHealthcare's nut, again?

Let's talk outcomes and efficiency, and not pretend charging doctors $39 to file "insurance" paperwork is anywhere close to optimal.

And, yes, aggregate risk for people will not change, as we, unlike our tools (e.g. a house), are only at equilibrium when we are dead.

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