Modern Healthcare October 17, 2019
The latest polling on healthcare issues shows Medicare for All is a political loser. Its tenuous support evaporates as soon as pollsters mention it raises taxes or eliminates private insurance.
There’s no doubt a tax-based universal system that covered everyone would be administratively simpler and reduce the gross disparities produced by current arrangements. But the time to pass came just after World War II, when President Harry Truman proposed a national, tax-supported health insurance plan in a country where just 1 in 7 people had hospital coverage.
That effort was doomed when the American Medical Association, American Hospital Association and U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposed it with the false charge that it was “socialized medicine.” While their reasoning has changed,...
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