re: Single payer: better care for less cost?: It's not so easy

Plus quite honestly a vast majority of our expenditures are not being spent on educated individuals. If you spend any amount of time in Academic Medical Centers you will quickly understand what we are facing. Diabetic individuals that no matter how many times you explain to them that they have to change their diet simply won't. Cancer patients who gets a central line for chemo who even though you explain they have to clean the sight daily and are given the disposables to complete the task and don't do it, end up septic and spend countless days in the ICU. I can go on but some of the simple stuff I see patients, that are basically getting free healthcare, neglect boggles my mind sometimes.