Was just thinking that there should be doctor clubs, where a bunch of people pool their money to hire a dedicated general physician. Or to have a shared tailor, or group cafeteria, or whatever.

The ratio of people covered to specialists would probably determine whether it’s feasible. You’d want the specialist to still get paid a healthy (and guaranteed) salary and to have a more satisfying relationship with customers. And the members of the club to get better service / product than they would otherwise with middlemen taking a cut.

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    If you are arguing that we have a lot of folks living in poverty and their taxes might increase a bit I believe that is a bad faith argument.

    If you get health insurance through your employer like most Americans then the employer paid parts will also disappear… but folks are so uninformed that they can’t see it

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      Facts are not bad faith. Pretending it will not cause taxes to increase is just silly, and why we have never been able to get it passed.

      People like the idea until they find out their taxes will go up considerably. I am fine with that but stop trying to be dishonest. The money has to come from some place to fund the system. That means taxes will increase.

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        It’s bad faith to lie about total costs. Period. Our current system leaves tens of millions uninsured (most especially children, and many more millions underinsured.

        United States is a third world country when it comes to health care for the poor.

        Total cost will go down unless you pay basically nothing for health insurance.