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Single-Payer Health Insurance System Will Empower Federal Gov't, Not Patients and Doctors
Single-Payer Health Insurance System Will Empower Federal Gov't, Not Patients and Doctors
03 June 2016
Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses the failure of single-payer healthcare, why bundled payments are bad medicine for Medicare patients and will lead to long waiting lists and rationed care, and how the majority of Americans still oppose ObamaCare.
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