Oddly, I find myself agreeing with Paul Krugman this morning. A single payer insurance system which allows topping up by those who wish it (although he doesn’t say it, I assume this means top up insurance as well as top up direct purchase) could indeed be a good solution to whatever ails the US health care system. Well, as long as next column he doesn’t also propose a single provider system. Just one little snark:
But Truman failed. Special interests, especially the American Medical
Association and Southern politicians who feared that national insurance
would lead to racially integrated hospitals, triumphed.
Errr, which party did those Senators belong to then, Paul?
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