If single-payer ever takes hold, undoing it would be extraordinarily difficult. That is precisely why the country should reject it now.
“Presidents come and go,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently declared. “Single-payer is forever.”
That line was meant as a boast. Americans should hear it as a warning.
For years, progressives have treated government-run healthcare as the ultimate political prize. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., made Medicare for All the centerpiece of two presidential campaigns.
Now Democratic candidates across the country — especially in California — are reviving state-level single-payer proposals with renewed confidence.
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AOC Says Single-Payer Is Forever – That’s the Problem
Sally C. Pipes
If single-payer ever takes hold, undoing it would be extraordinarily difficult. That is precisely why the country should reject it now.
“Presidents come and go,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently declared. “Single-payer is forever.”
That line was meant as a boast. Americans should hear it as a warning.
For years, progressives have treated government-run healthcare as the ultimate political prize. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., made Medicare for All the centerpiece of two presidential campaigns.
Now Democratic candidates across the country — especially in California — are reviving state-level single-payer proposals with renewed confidence.
Read the entire 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.