Without health insurance? What's the real number?

[Phi Iota Gamma 84]

This is one of those issues that I can argue equally passionately either side of the issue depending on my mood.   There are many potential benefits from a single payer systerm.   There are as many persuasive arguments against it.

Theoretically you could argue for a single payer being more efficient and less expensive, and then the reality that the single payer is our over promising under delivering government kicks in and you realize NFW. 

[tower912]

Absolutely right P>I>G>, but  would that be worse than a guy in a cubicle 1000 miles away telling your doctor what are and aren't appropriate treatments of your condition, when his primary concern isn't your health but making sure his insurance company is profitable?  I agree that the government as sole administrator would be ridiculous.   But our current system isn't ideal, either.

[ChicosBailBonds]

[77ncaachamps]

Consider yourselves lucky. In the West Coast, the health care premiums are exceedingly higher than the rest of the country. Couple that with high cost of living AND closing hospitals...ugh...need I mention clinics overburdened with illegal immigrants  - which I'm sure outnumber those in the upper midwest.