Government can promise comprehensive health care to everyone, but it cannot conjure an unlimited supply of doctors, nurses, hospital beds or taxpayer dollars. When demand exceeds what the government’s budget can finance, something has to give — and usually, it’s access to care.
Single-payer health care is back on the political agenda, pushed by Democratic Socialists and their leftist allies as the answer to Americans’ frustrations with private medical insurers.
But while excoriating insurance companies may be good politics, forcing everyone into a government insurance monopoly would be disastrous policy.
Today’s insurance market has flaws, granted — but at least Americans aren’t trapped.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.
Why the DSA’s Medicare-for-All dream threatens us with a real-life nightmare
Sally C. Pipes
Government can promise comprehensive health care to everyone, but it cannot conjure an unlimited supply of doctors, nurses, hospital beds or taxpayer dollars. When demand exceeds what the government’s budget can finance, something has to give — and usually, it’s access to care.
Single-payer health care is back on the political agenda, pushed by Democratic Socialists and their leftist allies as the answer to Americans’ frustrations with private medical insurers.
But while excoriating insurance companies may be good politics, forcing everyone into a government insurance monopoly would be disastrous policy.
Today’s insurance market has flaws, granted — but at least Americans aren’t trapped.
Read the op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.