Taking Single-Payer Seriously
Medicare for All is a moral imperative. But the urgency of passing it doesn’t mean we can forget about the details.
Has the time for Medicare for All finally arrived? Many on the Left certainly think so.
“Various half-measures are not worth it,” physician and activist Adam Gaffney wrote a few weeks ago. “Single-payer is the alternative to the health care status quo.”
This is not just idle chitchat. A January Pew Research survey found that 60 percent of Americans think the government “has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.” And a recent Morning Consult poll showed 44 percent of Americans backed a single-payer plan, much more than those who opposed it.
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