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About half of the US population is currently getting govt healthcare at a per-capita cost that is basically the same as the per-capita cost of the folks getting private healthcare.

If govt healthcare in the US will be cheaper than private, why isn't it now?

Note to single-payer advocates. Nothing is stopping you from fixing the existing US govt healthcare system to provide the promised benefits. When you do, then all you have to do to kill the private system is open up the fixed public system at cost. Of course, that assumes that you can actually make govt healthcare work as you've asserted, but surely that's no big deal....



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