Health Policy Placebos
We don’t administer useless nostrums for curable cancer–even when effective treatment is arduous. Yet Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama prescribe the health policy equivalent of placebos. (John McCain...
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Healthcare Lifeboats
LLOYD MILLER Massachusetts’s 2006 healthcare reform plan, often cited as a model for the nation, is sailing through choppy waters. Governor Deval Patrick is keeping it afloat by throwing away the...
View ArticleExchange: ACA vs. Single-Payer—Bury the Hatchet?
Washington, D.C. As the attorney who filed the amicus brief on behalf of Single Payer Action, It’s Our Economy, and Fifty Medical Doctors Who Support Single Payer, all of which opposed the individual...
View ArticleCan Medicare for All Succeed?
To the editors: Joshua Holland’s anti–single payer screed (“Medicare for All Isn’t the Solution for Universal Health Care”) is so riddled with misinformation and outright errors that it makes one...
View ArticleSingle Payer Is Actually a Huge Bargain
ast week, Charles Blahous at the Koch-funded Mercatus Center at George Mason University published a study suggesting that Bernie Sanders’s single-payer health-care plan would break the bank. But almost...
View ArticleThe ‘Public Option’ on Health Care Is a Poison Pill
Health care reform has been the most hotly contested issue in the Democratic presidential debates. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have been pushing a single-payer Medicare for All plan, under...
View ArticleMedicare for All Is Not Enough
We have long advocated for single-payer national health insurance. By eliminating private insurers and simplifying how providers are paid, single-payer would free up hundreds of billions of dollars now...
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