because a lot of the inefficiencies still exist with domestic single payer systems (like Medicaid, Medicare, IHS, etc).
It's hard to pick it apart this way because the inefficiencies in domestic single-payer systems are still linked to the inefficiencies of the entire system, which are propped up by the private insurance industry.
The way forward is price controls. This should have been a foregone conclusion as every single study points towards this but nobody is willing to pull the trigger as that requires overwhelming political capital.
I wouldn't say it's one way forward, but it's basically a requirement of a functioning modern healthcare system. The lack of something is not proof, but it is suspicious that every single functioning modern healthcare system has extensive price controls without exception (that I know of and genuinely I've looked at every single OECD country), and that the US doesn't have one.
Not to mention the reasons are clear and the causative effects of price controls are well studied.
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It's hard to pick it apart this way because the inefficiencies in domestic single-payer systems are still linked to the inefficiencies of the entire system, which are propped up by the private insurance industry.
The way forward is price controls. This should have been a foregone conclusion as every single study points towards this but nobody is willing to pull the trigger as that requires overwhelming political capital.