In 2017, Sen. Bernie Sanders officially unveiled his plan to move the U.S. health care operation to a single-payer system after weeks of promotion and speculation.

Many of the world's industrialized countries have a single-payer health care system, in which government administers all medical care. Support for such a system exists in the U.S.; even President ...

Advocates of single-payer health care—like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., with his “Medicare for All” legislation—suggest Americans would enjoy a health care utopia if only the government ...

Breaking down the single-payer healthcare bill 03:16. The most recent effort toward that goal came from the Massachusetts Senate early in November. Already known for its progressive health care ...

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Our study of state single-payer proposals in the ACA era highlights the extent to which states must contort their health reforms to overcome federal legal hurdles—particularly the threat of ...

“Single-payer” health care is increasingly popular with some Members of Congress and the public at large. REF This should come as no surprise: Proponents of a single-payer system in the United ...

The single-payer government monopoly would even have the power to decide what health care any doctor or hospital could provide, through its single, unitary control over payment for that health care.

But as I’ll explain, passing single-payer health care at the state level is next to impossible, as states are particularly limited in how they can allocate federal and private health care funds.

Single-payer health care systems are frequently proposed as the solution to the problem of the uninsured. In theory, such arrangements would guarantee that all citizens have a health insurance policy.

If the state switches to a publicly run and publicly financed health care system (i.e. single-payer), Washington could cover everyone and save approximately $2.5 billion in the first year.

That’s also true of single-payer health care. As states like California, New York, and Vermont have found out when they’ve journeyed down that road, high-quality single-payer is bankruptcy expensive.