“Single payer is 3 years away.”
This system is a disaster, but they won’t be able to push single payer at this point. There’s just no money for it. I have solutions, as do most who actually work in medicine. One approach is to limit the percentage of any medical payment that can go to ‘administrative’ costs and that doesn’t go directly to patient care. The other is to encourage more and more competition. The consolidation of medical systems, with big hospital systems full of administrators going out and buying out private practices and taking over smaller hospitals is doing the exact opposite of this - which is contributing to why this is a disaster.