In total, the subsidies are equivalent to about 3.

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In total, the subsidies are equivalent to about 3.4 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product.

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it's an argument for single payer.

The corporations SHOULD be relieved of the cost burdens imposed in providing health care coverage for their employees, as it is in most of the industrialized world.

Medicare is far more cost effective in delivering health care than are private health insurers.