Based on comments at a July 1st Federalist Society debate on health reform
Single payer:  freedom, choice and quality

Healthcare is a human right.  It is fundamental and instrumental to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We are paying for a first rate system but getting a mediocre one, getting phenomenally low value on the dollar.  [...]

Prevention and wellness programs frequently can be very beneficial for our physical health and our sense of well being, and when they are, they may well be worth the investment of our time and money.

by Kip Sullivan, JD
Conservatives never base their opposition to single-payer on the ground that it is “politically infeasible.” They oppose single-payer on policy grounds and they say so. The “political feasibility” argument is used exclusively by proponents of universal health insurance who profess to admire single-payer systems but who refuse to support single-payer legislation [...]

A recent post on the National Center for Policy Analysis’s (NCPA) web site by Dr. Scott Atlas of the Hoover Institute and Stanford University expounded on 10 “surprising facts” about our health care system.  After an opening statement that U. S. health care has been denigrated compared to other developed countries around the world, Atlas [...]

Once again. The stated goals of health care reform are 1) to cover everyone, and 2) to slow the growth in health care costs so that health care is affordable. So what is Congress doing?

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Last night as the House Energy and Commerce Committee completed its markup of HR 3200, the House health reform bill, Chairman Henry Waxman interrupted Representative Anthony Weiner of New York to say that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had promised that single payer legislation, HR 676, The United States National Health Care Act would [...]

As the debate over health care reform becomes all-out warfare between parties and within the Democratic party, Congress will adjourn shortly for its August recess with many of the key questions unresolved.  However, the bill as shaped by two or three House committees (H. R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act) gives a point of [...]

by Kip Sullivan
It has become obvious that the Democratic leadership in Congress will not fight for a large “Medicare-like” program or “public option,” to use the lingo adopted early in 2009 by advocates of this idea. As I reported in an article posted on this blog on July 20, “public option” advocates originally claimed they [...]

The so-called public option has emerged as the single most divisive point in the health care reform proposals being shaped in various committees in Congress. Republicans have risen up to demonize it as a government takeover of health care on the slippery slope toward socialism. Within the powerful Senate Finance Committee, it is being called [...]

Together with an individual mandate described in the last post, an employer mandate is an essential part of all legislative health care reform proposals now being considered in Congress. The House bill requires employers with payrolls larger than $250,000 to contribute 72.5 percent of health insurance premium costs for full-time employees and 65 percent for [...]