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Neither patients nor physicians can now freely choose either each other or his or her consultant or hospital. The bottom line is profit in the guise of efficiency, not clinical care based upon medical need.

Decisions are increasingly made not by physicians or patients but by private bureaucrats, who are anonymous and do not know either participant, and usually by phone.

In my view, though no program can be perfect, the single payer plan, regulated by the government, which distant though it may be, comes closest to representing all of the people than does any private corporation, is the simplest, fairest, in the long run the most cost-effective, and the only ope which really offers a full range of

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