Americans frustrated with insurers deserve the power to fire them.
Medicare for All would leave them stuck with the one insurer they could never fire — Washington, DC.
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.
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
Americans frustrated with insurers deserve the power to fire them.
Medicare for All would leave them stuck with the one insurer they could never fire — Washington, DC.
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.
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.