First off, this debate belongs in the Healthcare thread, but ...
I'll play the devil's advocate here ...
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include those costs as part of a broad tax, roughly equivalent to what everyone is already paying in inflated health care costs
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Do you have any data to back that up?
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in a unified system, health care costs for EVERYONE will go down just on administrative streamlining alone.
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Virtual impossibility. Perhaps overall, but when those who cannot afford are added, the cost will/must come from others.