Opinion | A single-payer health-care system is no panacea

Attendees hold signs while waiting for a news conference on health care to begin on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2017. By Robert J. Samuelson Robert J. Samuelson Columnist focusing on economics Bio Columnist May 8 at 11:30 AM The popular appeal of a single-payer system to solve the nation’s health-care problems is no secret. Everyone would have insurance, recognizing — as Sen. Bernie Sanders continually tells us — that health care is “a right, not a privilege.

A single-payer system would not resolve this contradiction. But is it the best we can do? This is a legitimate debate. What is not legitimate is the assumption that there’s some pain-free escape from our health care dilemma. That’s a delusion. It’s no panacea. “The transition toward a single-payer system could be complicated, challenging and potentially disruptive,” says the CBO report .

Next is the possibility that benefits would be expanded. For example, fee-for-service Medicare does not now cover dental care, vision or hearing services. Coverage could be extended to “everyone under a single-payer system, or coverage could be restricted to low-income people,” says the CBO. The same is true of long-term nursing-home and home-health services. There is coverage today, but it’s strictly limited.

Those idiots around the world WTF are they thinking? Living longer and paying less for healthcare? The fools. Maybe our war profiteers should drop some freedom bombs on their citizens.

Heart bypass in France =$20,000. Heart bypass U.S. = $80,000 - $120,000 same outcome. How?

OMG if care is low cost/free, people will *use* it, & costs for the single payer will go up! Once again, someone is looking at an element of a problem in isolation. Health care costs may go up but days lost to pain and illness will go down. Net change should favor coverage.

Good perspective. Points about assuming all health spending is right and that people use resources more when they are free are important. I can buy into emergency/tragedy care being a right, but if you have a poor diet and you don’t exercise, your heart disease care is on you.

The article overlooked the savings, that according to AOC , would result in a big reduction in funeral costs. Yep, she said that.

This is a garbage opinion piece. The author clearly misses the overarching point, which is most Americans have effectively poor healthcare and private insurance guarantees that millions of people could go bankrupt if they get sick. This is untenable.

When people say they're unhappy with rising medical costs, they mean the costs they have to pay. No one cares what their insurance company pays.

What an insubstantial piece of drivel! Jeff Bezos' 'pain' from paying taxes isn't equivalent to the 'pain' that someone who can't afford insulin suffers, even if the newspaper he owns is more sympathetic with him than with 30 million uninsured people.

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I see the Royals had the baby at the private hospital 🤔that’s odd NHS doesn’t have facility’s nice enough ?

Stop. Just stop. Know what's worse? 10% of the population with no insurance at all. 10% facing death or bankruptcy if they get cancer. This is grossly irresponsible, even as an opinion piece. You have to stop.

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Isnt the world over populated anyway?

Still waiting on the GOP health care plan

So, yes, *do* make perfect the enemy of the good?

If the richest country in the world can’t afford the good health of its people the question is “what is the point”. A lot of other countries can do it, so why can’t the “greatest”? Few less boats and planes and few more lives saved may enhance the “greatness”

True. That’s why I get so mad when candidates just sloganize “Medicare for all,”.

So if the plan isn't perfect, we should just suck it up and suffer under this shit. Spare me.

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