Here is the best system for providing national healthcare. Everyone gets a government healthcare credit card. Some would pay nothing. The rich would pay as much as all. Providers would not know, where on the sliding payment scale, a patient was positioned. Healthcare costs would plummet.

Insurance companies would go out of business. Healthcare prices That makes such  a common sense plan out of reach politically. It would wrench control away from the organized crime syndicate that owns the healthcare industry as it is.

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