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America Shouldn’t Buy Into Single-Payer Mirage

Will the seventh time be the charm? Sen. Bernie Sanders sure hopes so. Vermont’s senior senator just introduced his latest bid to install Medicare for All in the United States. In seven of the last eight Congresses, dating back to 2011, he’s offered legislation to launch a government takeover of ...
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Don’t Take Cutting-Edge Drugs for Granted

It’s hard to imagine a more destructive plan. Importing foreign price controls on prescription drugs would reduce access to existing treatments for everything from rare diseases to cancer. To understand why, consider two recent pieces by Michael Baker for the American Action Forum’s “Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems.” ...
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Colorado Gov. Polis’ new ‘study’ is a waste of time

The drive for single-payer health care won’t die. Gov. Jared Polis just signed legislation to spend $400,000 on a new “study” of how to bring government-run health care to the state. It’s a colossal waste of time and money. Decades of evidence from Canada and the United Kingdom show that ...
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Two Good Healthcare Headlines

We all could use a little bit of good news on health policy these days. And Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum provides it in the latest edition of AAF’s “Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems.” He commends two articles for readers of the series, and I will ...
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Counting the Cost of Single-Payer

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is back on the road promoting Medicare for All. “We are the only major nation on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a human right,” he complained in a recent speech in Nevada. But the Vermont senator failed to explain how ...
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Bernie Sanders Is Back. That’s Bad News For American Healthcare.

Is Bernie Sanders back? Earlier this month, the Associated Press proclaimed that Sanders has emerged as one of the leaders of a revived “anti-Trump resistance.” The 83-year-old senator is touring the country, “drawing huge crowds” who come to hear him talk about democracy, education, and health care. Read the op-ed ...
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Read the latest about the problems with single-payer health care

Single-Payer Systems Fail Children and Cancer Patients

But the real test of any healthcare system is whether it delivers timely, effective care. And in their latest installments in the American Action Forum’s “Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Michael Baker investigate that question in two key areas: pediatrics and cancer. Holtz-Eakin dives into ...
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Waiting for Care: The Sick Reality of Single-Payer Health Systems

A Vancouver hospital with staff shortages cancelled more than 100 heart surgeries in the first six months of last year, according to a new report. Patients queued up — again — to wait for care. Such stories abound in Canada and the United Kingdom, where the government operates and pays ...
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Canada’s Healthcare System Has No Place In The United States

When Justin Trudeau announced earlier this month that he would resign as prime minister of Canada, Donald Trump was ready with one of his go-to jokes. “Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State,” then President-elect Trump posted on social media, echoing his frequent assertion that the United States ...
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What’s up with US life expectancy?

U.S. life expectancy is, surprisingly enough, on the rise. According to a new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Americans can expect to live 80.4 years in 2050, up from 78.3 years in 2022. But it’s rising even more in other countries. In 2050, the United States ...
Commentary

America Shouldn’t Buy Into Single-Payer Mirage

Will the seventh time be the charm? Sen. Bernie Sanders sure hopes so. Vermont’s senior senator just introduced his latest bid to install Medicare for All in the United States. In seven of the last eight Congresses, dating back to 2011, he’s offered legislation to launch a government takeover of ...
Blog

Don’t Take Cutting-Edge Drugs for Granted

It’s hard to imagine a more destructive plan. Importing foreign price controls on prescription drugs would reduce access to existing treatments for everything from rare diseases to cancer. To understand why, consider two recent pieces by Michael Baker for the American Action Forum’s “Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems.” ...
Commentary

Colorado Gov. Polis’ new ‘study’ is a waste of time

The drive for single-payer health care won’t die. Gov. Jared Polis just signed legislation to spend $400,000 on a new “study” of how to bring government-run health care to the state. It’s a colossal waste of time and money. Decades of evidence from Canada and the United Kingdom show that ...
Blog

Two Good Healthcare Headlines

We all could use a little bit of good news on health policy these days. And Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum provides it in the latest edition of AAF’s “Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems.” He commends two articles for readers of the series, and I will ...
Blog

Counting the Cost of Single-Payer

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is back on the road promoting Medicare for All. “We are the only major nation on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a human right,” he complained in a recent speech in Nevada. But the Vermont senator failed to explain how ...
Commentary

Bernie Sanders Is Back. That’s Bad News For American Healthcare.

Is Bernie Sanders back? Earlier this month, the Associated Press proclaimed that Sanders has emerged as one of the leaders of a revived “anti-Trump resistance.” The 83-year-old senator is touring the country, “drawing huge crowds” who come to hear him talk about democracy, education, and health care. Read the op-ed ...
Blog

Read the latest about the problems with single-payer health care

Single-Payer Systems Fail Children and Cancer Patients

But the real test of any healthcare system is whether it delivers timely, effective care. And in their latest installments in the American Action Forum’s “Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Michael Baker investigate that question in two key areas: pediatrics and cancer. Holtz-Eakin dives into ...
Blog

Waiting for Care: The Sick Reality of Single-Payer Health Systems

A Vancouver hospital with staff shortages cancelled more than 100 heart surgeries in the first six months of last year, according to a new report. Patients queued up — again — to wait for care. Such stories abound in Canada and the United Kingdom, where the government operates and pays ...
Commentary

Canada’s Healthcare System Has No Place In The United States

When Justin Trudeau announced earlier this month that he would resign as prime minister of Canada, Donald Trump was ready with one of his go-to jokes. “Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State,” then President-elect Trump posted on social media, echoing his frequent assertion that the United States ...
Commentary

What’s up with US life expectancy?

U.S. life expectancy is, surprisingly enough, on the rise. According to a new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Americans can expect to live 80.4 years in 2050, up from 78.3 years in 2022. But it’s rising even more in other countries. In 2050, the United States ...
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