My own GP lamented to me last year that he was being forced into buying a new billing system: $50,000 + days of shutdown for training of his staff.
But that wasn’t the cost of dealing with insurance companies: it was the cost of the new government regs. that Obamacare forced upon him (and everyone else).
I expect that (a) a bunch of the costs cited in that graphic above are the result of Washington’s rules; (b) the costs of litigation; and (c) they would only go higher under a Washington-style single payer system.
You can eliminate all the redundant administrative and paperwork costs by streamlining the system.
What that graphic doesn’t mention is the very high taxation levels needed to pay the costs.
If we’re going to adopt single payer, we should have an honest debate about it and not the fuzzy soft sell the Left wants us to accept as the answer to all of our health care problems.
The absence of that debate is why Obamacare turned into a disaster. But some people don’t want to learn.
The crap that the average medical provider goes through to try and collect their payment from insurance companies IS insane.
Getting the government involved will only make it worse.
Canada’s health care system provides better care than the worst parts of the U.S. health care system. It comes no where close to providing care as good as the best parts of the U.S. health care system.