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The problems in healthcare have gone beyond just tweaking the current system to a point where we really have to look at infrastructure issues, and along that dialog goes an all payer system. This could help lessen serious acute care problems where people have simply let a health condition go far too long because they don't have access to care and they come in only when they are truly in a crisis. We need to create a new single payer federal system. As a country, we already spend almost twice as much as every other country per person on healthcare, so there's money in the system. Doctors appreciate the free market system, but the problem is that we are racking profits off of a social industry that is medicine, scooping profits off the top, and people are dying or suffering as a result. Single-payer is not socialized medicine. Under the system being proposed, everything stays as a fee for service, provide competition, but hospitals and doctors no longer have to compete with one another to try and keep the poorly insured out of their practice. The whole emphasis now in competition will be competing for quality of care and outcomes, which is really where the competition in medicine has to occur.