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In reply to the discussion: Tell Me Again How A Single Payer System Would Cost Too Much. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Implementing the system has a but load of upfront cost as the system moves from a butt load of private systems, to a single public (The ACA actually has done some of the work already with the electronic charting requirement) . Once that is done... you can expect actual costs to drop by orders of magnitude bellow the present hybrid, mostly private for profit system.
So to be honest, you would have a spike, a year or two... and then a precipitous dip. So after 10 years, the usual time line for things like this... overall you will see a drop in costs, and I will gladly eat my hat if the savings are not significant.
When people talk it will cost too much... ask the stupid question... do you mean the first 6 months, maybe first two years? If they do (and I highly doubt they know that), you got 'em