Boris,
I suppose the Canadian Supreme Court is a bunch of morons, then? Maybe, just maybe, they realized upon objective review of the data, that a single payer system doesn’t work. Or, doesn’t work in a way compatible with human rights. And I don’t think the plaintiffs in that case were looking for breast implants, either. They were probably supporters of the system until they got caught up in it and became conscious of the mismatch between promises and reality that inevitably occurs in monopolies.
Insurance is one of the most highly regulated industries in the US, so all that “paperwork”, or a good chunk of it, is to fulfill government regulatory requirements. The other part is to gather information to create better policies and pricing for consumers to gain market share and make current customers stick with the company longer. Do you have any idea how much it costs to get a new customer versus keeping a current customer? Of course you don’t, because you likely have no business experience whatsoever. But, Boris, I fear that if the human race geared its aspirations to be in line with your intellect, we’d still be sticking twigs down anthills to get our dinner.
Finally, “progressives” or whatever you are going to be calling yourselves, your greatest and grandest experiment in progressivism, the Soviet Union, collapsed. Went kaput due to a mismatch between “progressivism” and human nature. I suppose Boris will complain that the Soviet Union wasn’t “progressive” and that those stories about waiting in line for toilet paper were also bogus, just like healthcare rationing.
I just read today that the people who oversee Medicare are going to recommend that Medicare payments to doctors be reduced by 9%. Doctors surveyed regarding the change said they were more likely to stop seeing Medicare patients. That’s how rationing ends up happening. Fewer people become doctors. In a single payer system where the government changes the rules of the game at its whim, the cost of becoming a doctor goes up, therefore you get fewer doctors. Far better to become a government parasite under those circumstances.
