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That still requires health care providers to bill that single payer and wait to get paid.
Years ago, a Brit, living in France, was on the Fool. He said that, when the doc was done, the clerk typed some codes into her computer, swiped the guy's national health card, and the payment was in the doc's bank account, before he was out the door. He also talked about how the French system tracked the utilization of expensive facilities. A new MRI, for instance, would not be approved, until wait times reached a certain level. Tim had his gall bladder yanked in the middle of the night, because the Canadian system keeps facilities humming, not sitting idle.
Steve
