HealthExec February 25, 2020
An analysis of 22 single-payer healthcare plans have nearly all come to the same conclusion: Universal healthcare will lower costs either in the first year or within the first several years.
The findings were published in PLOS Medicine in January and come at a time when Medicare for all policies are being hotly debated among Democratic presidential candidates. A few candidates, including Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Ma.), have adopted universal healthcare platforms, while others are pushing Medicare for all options.
Researchers from the University of California San Francisco assessed the projected cost impact of a single-payer approach, surveying an expert panel and searching PubMed, Google, Google Scholar and preexisting lists for formal economic studies of the projected...
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