The US' sky-high healthcare costs are driven by the oversized admin spending burden, and a single-payer system could be a solution:
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To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they're published on Business Insider, click here. The US' sky-high healthcare costs are driven in no small part by the oversized admin spending burden private insurance places on hospitals and other providers — and these costs could have negative implications on patient health. a 2018 JAMA report — and the cost burdens associated with private insurance are being passed along to US consumers, making treatment an unmanageable expense.
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