Medicare Advantage shows that private-sector competition works. Private insurers have an incentive to provide high-quality care at low prices — and to continuously improve service to attract customers.
One look across the Atlantic, to the disaster unfolding in the United Kingdom’s government-run healthcare system, ought to curb any enthusiasm for Medicare for All.
Medicaid rewards millions of healthy adults for choosing not to work — at enormous cost to taxpayers. Asking these Americans to contribute to the economy in return for government largesse is perfectly reasonable.
Progressives are trying to sell voters on a single-payer healthcare plan that charges no premiums, deductibles, or copays. But the math simply doesn’t add up.
Single-payer systems have failed everywhere they’ve been implemented, from the United Kingdom to Canada. Americans who fall for single-payer’s promise of “universal health coverage” at lower cost will instead find themselves facing long waits for subpa…
The U.S. health system is far from perfect. But unless doctors are eager for the government to make them underpaid, overworked, and incapable of providing high-quality care, they must eschew the single-payer model.
It’s time for Congress to roll back the Medicaid expansion — and fundamentally reform the broken program so that it protects taxpayers and better serves the truly needy.