New Yorkers are understandably frustrated with rising health costs. But replacing private insurance with confiscatory tax hikes and a sprawling state bureaucracy will not make care cheaper or more accessible.
With health insurance premiums climbing across New York, some lawmakers are once again pitching a familiar “solution” — scrap private coverage and put the state in charge of everyone’s health care.
More than 30 members of the state Senate are beating the drum for the New York Health Act, which would force every resident into a single, government-run health plan. The measure is currently sitting with the Senate Health Committee.
It’s a sweeping promise. It’s also a fiscal and medical gamble that New York can’t afford.
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New Yorkers can’t afford Albany’s single-payer fantasy
Sally C. Pipes
New Yorkers are understandably frustrated with rising health costs. But replacing private insurance with confiscatory tax hikes and a sprawling state bureaucracy will not make care cheaper or more accessible.
With health insurance premiums climbing across New York, some lawmakers are once again pitching a familiar “solution” — scrap private coverage and put the state in charge of everyone’s health care.
More than 30 members of the state Senate are beating the drum for the New York Health Act, which would force every resident into a single, government-run health plan. The measure is currently sitting with the Senate Health Committee.
It’s a sweeping promise. It’s also a fiscal and medical gamble that New York can’t afford.
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.