Paul Krugman gets my Monday morning award for being realistic. In today’s column he points out that there are several ways to universal health care coverage that work in different countries. He goes on to caution:
Moving to single-payer would mean taking away this coverage and imposing new taxes; to make it fly politically you’d have to convince most of these people both that they would save more in premiums than they pay in additional taxes, and that their new coverage would be just as good as the old.
This might in fact be true, but it would be one heck of a hard sell. Is this really where progressives want to spend their political capital?
Here’s a link: www.nytimes.com/…