Single-Payer

Actions speak louder than words. That adage is worth remembering as Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, try to minimize their records on granting public health coverage to those who are in the country illegally. Walz signed legislation in Minnesota that allowed such immigrants ...

Something, of course, must be done. Less than one in four people are satisfied with the NHS and its outdated centralised system of universal coverage, which routinely fails to provide adequate services. Some 7.6 million patients, including individuals suffering from cancer, are waiting to start treatment. About half have waited ...

Just 37% of likely voters support a government takeover of the country’s health insurance system and a concomitant ban on private health insurance, according to a survey conducted by Echelon Insights and sponsored by the Pacific Research Institute. And support for such a single-payer system has been eroding, dropping three ...

Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris joined President Joe Biden at the White House last Thursday for an event on healthcare policy. The two presented a unified vision for the future of America’s health sector. But the space between them on this issue, historically speaking, is difficult to ignore. As recently as ...

Great Britain has new leadership. The Labour Party rode dissatisfaction with the Conservative Party, and in particular its stewardship of the country’s National Health Service, to victory in this month’s elections. Democrats in the United States may hope they can follow their left-wing brethren to victory this fall by campaigning ...

Democrats argue that Medicare X “would help achieve universal health care by making coverage more affordable and accessible,” especially in rural communities. Democrats claim that they just want to offer another health insurance choice. But Medicare X would simply nudge us along toward the Democrats’ endgame: a complete government takeover ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders’s, I-Vt., assessment of U.S. healthcare during an event at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health earlier this month, was “It is a system not designed to provide health care to all people in a cost-effective way.” What Sen. Sanders failed to mention is that his preferred model for care delivery ...