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Kennedy said the proposal he described would not be a single-payer system in which the federal government would replace insurance companies. Such a system, he said, would require at least five years to pass, due to the cost...
...case, managed competition may not be superior, at least from the doctors' point of view. The administrative costs of a Canadian-style single-payer system will likely be lower than those in a managed-competition system with a redundancy of providers, computer systems and paperwork. A recent study in Health Daily suggests that a single-payer system would reduce physicians' administrative costs by 26 percent and hospitals...
During a question-and-answer period, Wellstonesaid that while the single-payer system mightinflate the federal budget, it was a worthwhileexpense--particularly since it could fosterlong-term savings...
Wellstone, a Minnesota Democrat elected in a populist campaign two years ago, argues that a single-payer system offers the only means for making health care available to all Americans without reducing consumer choice...
Wellstone said he wanted the public to become more active in support- ing a single-payer plan and fighting thegovernment's bureaucracy and corruption. Hepointed to the Single Payer Health Care CoveragePlan, a piece of pending legislation, as a modelprogram...