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Questionmarktarius posted...

The better solution is to embrace the fact that public healthcare is generally awful.
Implement a chain of public clinics and hospitals, while leaving the private system largely intact. With the indigent and desperate in the public system, the private system no longer has to write off (thus pass along) the costs of deadbeats, bankruptcies, and medicare/aid payment tables, reducing costs for everyone else.

That's the point of a "VA for everyone" concept.

you keep saying this despite the fact that you've been told what a stupid suggestion it is several times

what do medicaid and medicare, by far the two largest sources of public health insurance, have to do with this weird scheme you've created based on the VA? this is even more stupid than people who act like single payer is the only kind of universal coverage, because it relies on the same fallacy, but then also pretends public insurance is easily separable from private insurance as though providers that accept private insurance don't accept medicaid or medicare, or as though private insurance isn't heavily subsidied whether it's employer-sponsored or on the public exchanges
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