New York Times
Health Care Costs
November 23, 2004
To the Editor:
Increasing incentives and competition are not magic potions to control health care costs (Economic Scene, Nov. 18).
Independent studies in a number of states have demonstrated that a single-payer system would cover everyone and eliminate the wasteful profits and administrative costs of the middlemen that plague our current system.
When large corporations begin to see a single-payer system as the means by which they can be relieved of providing health care for their employees and thereby be more globally competitive, the political imperative for Medicare for all will be overwhelming.
Gerald Gollin, M.D.
Redlands, Calif., Nov. 18, 2004