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There are dozens of these studies. Vermont tried to implement a single payer system to realize these costs, and it was an epic failure. Read up on it.

https://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7427117/single-payer-vermont-...

What people don't seem to understand is that you can't just vacuum money out of a giant industry. The money we spend in health care doesn't go into an incinerator. There are approximately 16.5 million people working in the health care industry. This study assumes we'll save 13%, a wildly optimistic figure, but we'll go with it.

Pick the 2.15 million people to fire.



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