Single Payer

Medical assistance in dying now accounts for roughly one in 20 deaths in Canada, according to the latest government data. That makes it the country’s fifth-leading cause of death. For patients facing severe illness and suffering, the option is framed as an act of compassion. But its rapid expansion raises ...

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 ...

California progressives’ single-payer health care fever dream is back. This time, the cost could hit half a trillion dollars a year. Single-payer means the government pays, for everything. Several candidates for governor are promising just such a government takeover of the state’s health insurance system. Billionaire Tom Steyer says, “Bernie ...

Progressives are dreaming once again of a government takeover of the healthcare system. Locked out of power in Washington, they’re taking their fight for single-payer to blue states. This week, four New Yorkers took to the pages of the journal Health Affairs to make their case for how the Empire ...

Affordability is becoming the watchword for Republicans and Democrats alike this election year. Progressives in Senate races from Maine to Illinois to Minnesota are putting Medicare for All at the center of their agenda for making health care affordable. Polling shows that some two-thirds of Americans support the policy. The ...

As Congress looks for ways to bring down the cost of insurance, a growing number of Democrats are pushing to get rid of insurance altogether and make the federal government the sole funder of health care in this country. Several progressive Senate candidates have put Medicare for All at the ...

PRI’s Sally Pipes discusses health care policy and the threat of single payer with podcast host Alexis Wilkins. Listen to the entire podcast here. 

Medicare for All is poised for a comeback. Earlier this month, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the former head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, released polling data showing strong support for the idea among Democrats. Jayapal’s renewed push for socialized medicine comes as many Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate are putting ...

Most younger voters are rooting for a socialist president in the 2028 election, according to a new poll. In addition, more than three-quarters of voters younger than 40 believe that major industries such as health care, energy and Big Tech should be nationalized “to give more control and equity to ...

Meet Mary, a 60-year-old woman from British Columbia. She needed a colonoscopy to confirm her cancer diagnosis. Mary spent four months on a waiting list. Then her bowel ruptured, and she suffered life-threatening sepsis. Due to the delay in treating her cancer, she had to get chemotherapy, which came with ...