Heck, any clinic can purchase an MRI machine. It is a revenue producing addition to the bottom line. Never mind the temptation to order unnecessary or questionable tests. Those MRI payments don't pay themselves.

As to the inevitable increase in cost if we switch to single payor, have to disagree. We already have a system in place, Medicare, that runs a 3% overhead cost. Moreover, there are parallel systems for comparison in every other industrialized country in the world who deliver better care, (when adjusted for the total % of people covered, not just your concierge plans), at a lower cost.

The only reason we don't have single payor healthcare in this country is the number of pigs at the trough, and the politicians they purchase. Private equity siphons off money for middle men, executive salaries, and investor returns, which total ~ 30% of all health care premiums, that does not deliver any health care.

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