Sebelius: Single-Payer Health Care Not In Plans
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Sebelius: Single-Payer Health Care Not In Plans – : NPR
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Morning Edition, June 16, 2009 ·
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill hammer out legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says that a single-payer option is not on the table.
“This is not a trick. This is not single-payer,” Sebelius told Steve Inskeep. She added: “That’s not what anyone is talking about — mostly because the president feels strongly, as I do, that dismantling private health coverage for the 180 million Americans that have it, discouraging more employers from coming into the marketplace, is really the bad, you know, is a bad direction to go.”
Remaking the nation’s health care system is a massive task: The industry constitutes 18 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product. But those skyrocketing health care costs — and the increasing burden they put on the U.S. economy — are exactly why the president says a health care overhaul must be a national priority.
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