re: Trump on Healthcare: "Who Knew?"

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boogieman of huge wait times associated with single payer systems are overblown.

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Negative.

Wait times are not some mystical datapoint.
They are resource driven.

"Cost savings" via single payer come vis-a-vis the payer monopoly. Single payer economics are no longer a matter of "what the market will bear." Rather it is a sole matter of what the monopoly decides to pay. In the case of healthcare, the situation reverts to what providers and facilities are willing to bear.

The concomitant cost of provider and facility willingness to accept such randomly determined payer remuneration is passed on to the consumer. That "cost" is measured in diminished availability, decreased quality, and increased wait times.

Given the uniquely adversarial, inefficient tort system US single payer would overlay, those consumer "costs" would escalate quickly.