There is a solution to rising health costs

By Jay Brock, M.D.
Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star, June 7, 2018

Single-payer is the solution to rising healthcare costs

Your June 1 editorial [Obamacare premiums set to rise again] did a good job of pointing out the flaws in Obamacare: It is getting more expensive and unaffordable, especially for working and middle-class families who are self-employed or whose employers do not cover health care. And it’s failing to “bend the health care cost curve.”

What the editorial failed to do, however, is to present an alternative to the present dysfunctional health insurance system that you so rightly deplore.

In spite of your proclaiming that there is still no “cure” in sight, there is a viable alternative that has been successful in other advanced nations: A single-payer system such as National Improved Medicare for All.

NIMA would provide universal coverage to everyone living here, and do so while fixing many of the major flaws of the current system. It would decrease health care costs for 95 percent of hardworking American families, increase competition, decrease government interference, bend the health care cost curve, increase the number of people contributing into the system and be great for business.

Rather than complain about how bad the current system is (and you can blame interference from politicians for much of this), it behooves the Free Lance–Star to advocate for its replacement.

If you know a system that is better than National Improved Medicare for All, let’s hear it.

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