Here's why creating single-payer health care in America is so hard [View all]

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I'm interested in what you all think of this article.
Being for single-payer and Bernie myself I understand what is being written here in terms of what we face.

We must continue forward towards healthcare as a right and not a privilege!


Here's why creating single-payer health care in America is so hard
To become politically feasible, an American single-payer system would necessarily replicate our current system’s most glaring defects.
Updated by Harold Pollack on January 16, 2016, 11:20 a.m. ET

The Hillary Clinton campaign is taking some hard knocks from liberals over its maladroit attacks on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer proposal. In one sense, the knocks are well-deserved. Even if single-payer markedly lowers medical expenditures, proponents such as Larry Seidman estimate that a tax increase of at least 8 percent of GDP would likely be required to finance it. That’s a heavy political lift. It’s about as much as the entire federal income tax on individuals.

Yet as proponents rightly observe, these taxes would replace many visible and invisible ways we now provide to support a health sector that consume more than 17 percent of our economy. The experience of peer industrial democracies suggests that a well-designed single-payer system would be more humane and markedly less expensive than what we have right now.

More:
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/16/10779270/pollack-single-payer-in-america


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