Health Affairs July 9, 2018
Editor’s Note: You can find previous posts here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
This is it folks. For a universal coverage scheme, financing is the whole shebang. Many proposals have fallen due to financing challenges. This is the moment where I show you how we can deliver the Medicare benefit to every American without raising taxes one cent. You should probably sit down.
Pessimo-realists that we Americans are, we have accepted as incontrovertible fact that we cannot afford to cover everyone. It’s odd though, really, to think so, because we spend much more per capita on health care than any other nation. The money’s there, it’s just being allocated extraordinarily inefficiently, starting with the morass of innumerable...