Private Insurance and Government Programs Drive Up Health Care Costs
Letting third parties pay our bills pushes prices higher and limits our options.
Single payer
Across the Globe, Government Health Care Systems Are Failing Us
By restricting private health care choices, the NHS and other beloved single-payer systems were doomed from the start.
Should the Government Provide Health Insurance to All Americans? A Soho Forum Debate
Gerald Friedman of the University of Massachusetts says yes, while the Pacific Research Institute's Sally Pipes says no.
Elizabeth Warren Has a Fake Plan To Pay for Medicare for All
Warren claims total costs for middle-class families would go down under her plan, but there are reasons to doubt this.
Sorry, Bernie Sanders: Taiwan's Single Payer System Isn't an Argument for Medicare for All
Taiwan’s system is less generous than the Sanders plan—yet it still struggles with cost control and access to care.
Elizabeth Warren Gives Up on Medicare for All
By planning to pass single-payer in year three of her presidency, she’s acknowledging it will never happen at all.
Elizabeth Warren Doesn't Really Have a Plan to Pay for Medicare for All
The presidential candidate wanted a proposal that was airtight and easy to explain. Her plan is neither.
Elizabeth Warren Wants To Pay for Medicare for All With a $9 Trillion Tax That Will Hit the Middle Class
Warren says it’s not a tax. But what else would you call a requirement that employers send money to the federal government to finance a public program?
On Medicare for All, Elizabeth Warren Is Fundamentally Dishonest
Her refusal to answer a question about taxes isn’t just dodgy; it’s designed to mislead.
Why the Failure of Vermont's Single-Payer Plan Is the Best Argument Against Medicare for All
An argument against Bernie Sanders' health care plan in The New York Times.
Kamala Harris' Medicare for All Problem Is the Democratic Party's Medicare for All Problem
The California senator's history of flip-flops reveal the emptiness of her campaign—and looming problems for her party.
Bernie Sanders Thinks Medicare for All Could Cost $40 Trillion
The cost of single-payer would dwarf the price of Obamacare.
Under Warren's Medicare for All Plan, Many Hospitals Would Be Forced to Close—Especially in Poor, Rural Areas
By paying dramatically lower rates, the single-payer plan would lead to a contraction in health care services.
Maryland's Health Care Price Controls Aren't Solving Problems—They're Creating Them
Hospitals gamed the system and costs didn’t come down.
Bernie Sanders Thinks Medicare for All Would Solve America's Health Care Problems. It Would Make Them Worse.
The nation's largest health care program faces a shortfall in less than a decade.
A New Government Report Shows Why Single Payer Would Be Really, Really Hard
Designing and implementing a government-run health plan would raise many difficult questions.
The Contradiction at the Heart of Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Plan
The democratic socialist from Vermont wants to radically expand coverage and benefits—while paying far less for health care services.
Medicare for All Would Actually Be a Government Takeover of Health Care
House Democrats' new single-payer bill would legally prohibit today's private health insurance and determine financing for doctors and hospitals.
More Than 100 House Democrats Endorse Medicare for All Plan That Would Eliminate Private Health Insurance in Just Two Years
A new single-payer plan would be even more disruptive and expensive than Bernie Sanders' proposal.
Bernie Sanders's 2020 Presidential Agenda Is a Giant Progressive Wishlist
Medicare for All, free college, breaking up the banks, a $15 minimum wage-the Vermont socialist wants to do it all.
Kamala Harris: Under Medicare for All, If You Like Your Insurance Plan, You Can't Keep It
The 2020 contender's single-payer pitch is all about disruption.
New Poll: Medicare for All Is Popular Until You Explain How It Works
Support drops when you tell people it would require higher taxes, longer lines, and switching insurance plans.
Even Democrats Are Divided Over Medicare For All
The single-payer fight is pitting moderate Democrats against progressives, partly because of Obamacare.
With an Erroneous Tweet, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Inadvertently Reveals That Medicare-for-All Proponents Still Don't Have a Plan
Americans don't support single payer. They support Medicare for All, which is just a meaningless catchphrase.
The Case Against Single-Payer Health Care
Let the health care market work without government meddling.
3 Reasons 'Medicare for All' Is a Really Bad Idea
It will cost way too much, increase wait times, and slow down the development of new drugs.
Trump Warns That Democrats 'Would Obliterate Obamacare'
At an election-eve campaign rally, Trump all but defends the health law he tried to repeal.
Donald Trump Defends Medicare, a Socialist Program, from the Threat of Socialism
In a new op-ed attacking single-payer, Trump inadvertently reveals that he's in favor of socialism-as long as it's for his supporters.
Obama Endorses Medicare-for-All
While president, Obama was a single-payer critic. Out of office, he thinks it's the wave of the future.
Bernie Sanders' Medicare-for-All Plan Will Cost $32 Trillion Over 10 Years
Yes, that's trillion with a "t."
Why Does Oregon Suck So Much at Spending Medicaid Dollars?
A new audit provides more details on the state Health Authority's waste and incompetence.
Harvard's Spineless Administrators vs. Chelsea Manning: Podcast
Reason editors talk single-payer health care, Rand Paul's push to deauthorize foreign wars, and Chelsea Manning vs. Harvard.
Medicaid for All Would 'Bankrupt the Nation,' Warns Bernie Sanders—In 1987
Thirty years ago, the young Sanders thought the cost of universal coverage would be "astronomical."
Bernie Sanders' New Single Payer Plan Is a Wild Legislative Fantasy
The new plan refuses to grapple with costs or tradeoffs.
State-Run Single-Payer Health Care Would Be Prohibitively Expensive—and Possibly Illegal
Would the Trump administration give states permission to pursue government-run health care? That's what California and New York would need.
New York's Single-Payer Health Care Plan Would Be More Expensive Than New York's Entire State Government
New York collects about $80 billion in revenue annually, but the health care plan passed Tuesday would cost at least $91 billion every year (and probably more).
Health Policy Scholar Who Said the Public Option Would Lead to Single Payer Now Says You Shouldn't Worry that the Public Option Will Lead to Single Payer
In 2008, Jacob Hacker called the public option a slow path to a government-run health insurance system.
Bernie Sanders' Health Care Plan Proves That U.S. Single-Payer is an Expensive Fantasy
It's too disruptive and too expensive.
Obamacare is Bad for Health Care Socialism
The federal health law makes it more difficult for states to pursue their own goals.
Colin Powell Endorses Single-Payer Health Plan System
Thinks we should follow the lead of other countries
