Yahoo Finance January 19, 2020
Single payer, or no single payer?
As candidates and policymakers debate health care’s future amid soaring insurance costs, a new study from the University of California San Francisco examined 22 single-payer plan proposals in the past 30 years. It found that a public-run system would save money over time.
Single-payer opponents argue it would increase both costs and inefficiency: Indeed, the UCSF study’s suggested the details would ultimately determine the savings. Yet the data found that single-payer “would save money over time, likely even during the first year of operation.”
James G. Kahn, a UCSF professor and a study’s researcher, said that “even though they start with different single designs and modeling assumptions, the vast majority of these studies all...
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