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Not anymore than selling cheap car insurance for safe drivers.

But, in general, I'm not sure health insurance would work without risk pooling. A large part of the problem is that health insurance isn't exactly insurance: paying for medication that someone takes everyday doesn't really fit the definition.

If we could start over from a clean slate, I don't see any reason why a health care system without insurance wouldn't work (it works it many other countries). But, as it stands, I fear that the only way we can fix our Healthcare problem is to implement single payer.



Massively boosting the number of doctors (and other direct care providers) would almost certainly have a positive effect on the healthcare system.

There's arguments against it, cost (not a good one, it would reduce costs) and 'quality' (not a good one, there's lots of great potential doctors not getting trained).

There's no forcing anybody to do anything (just removing restrictions on educating people and providing funding for training). It wouldn't even cost all that much (a few trillion over a decade vs $4 trillion annually on medical care).




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