Sicko:
Gumbel/Ind.UK/commondreams 04.Jun.07...infant mortality, which is 36 per cent higher than in Britain.A recent survey by the management consulting company McKinsey estimated the excess bureaucratic costs of managing private insurance policies - scouting for business, processing claims, and hiring “denial management specialists” to tell people why their ailment is not covered by their policy - at about $98bn a year. That, on its own, is significantly more than the $77bn McKinsey calculates it would cost to cover every uninsured American. If the government negotiated bulk purchasing rates for drugs, rather than allowing the pharmaceutical companies to set their own extortionate rates, that would save another $66bn.
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That's US infant mortality.
The McKinsey figures added together mean that nationalized health insurance, without the parasitic feed of bureaucracies on the make, and cutting out the middle-man prices on drugs, could cover every uninsured American twice.
But then they wouldn't die as often, so there'd be that many more people taking up space and using resources. Which is probably close to at least some of the rationale behind all this cruel neglect.
