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To the editor:
We read the recent editorial by Dr. Silvers [1] with great interest. We share his fear that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) "may be doomed to far less impact than planned". Dr. Silvers lays out how increased "agency costs" are a serious impediment to the effectiveness to the ACA. The examples he gives are only a few of the many inherent inefficiencies built into the current private-insurance system,...
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Dear Dr. Silvers. Thank you for this article. I wonder if you might speculate about the impact of a single payer system on the ACA. It seems to me that Single Payer is likely to improve much of what ails the bill and our medical system. Throughout the article, I felt you were leading us to it, but never got there. If you consider Single Payer beyond the purview of the article, I hope you will comment about it. Thanks...
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