In defense of single-payer: How it would reduce administrative waste

Would a single-payer national health program, at the end of the day, truly be sleeker and slimmer than our bloated and fragmented semi-private system?  Not according to Dr. Michel Accad, who takes on this important single-payer talking point in his post: “Will single-payer really reduce administrative waste?

Given that savings from reduced expenditures on billing and overhead are a core argument that single-payer advocates (myself among them) employ to advance …

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