Stanford Medicine April 12, 2021
A new analysis by Stanford researchers suggests the health care industry can reap many of the economic benefits of a “Medicare for All” program through incremental changes to the private health care market.
Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine have developed a novel framework that can be used to lower health care administrative costs so they’re the same, or even less than, those of a single-payer system.
The researchers say this can be done without disrupting the United States’ private, multipayer health care market.
The findings come as the Biden administration focuses on maintaining the structure of the Affordable Care Act rather than overhauling the country’s health-financing...