Single-Payer: From Off-the-Table to On-the-Floor
OPS_admin | Aug 06, 2009 | Comments 0
Single-Payer: From Off-the-Table to On-the-Floor - The BRAD BLOG :
But is it a fair fight? Why hasn’t House Leadership asked CBO for a real cost comparison to public-option plans?…
In an update to Small Victory for a Long-Term Single-Payer Strategy, I reported that “Rep. Anthony Weiner, (D-NY) will…make a motion before the House Energy & Commerce Committee to…replace H.R. 3200 [the hybrid, "public option plan] with H.R. 676 — single payer Medicare for All.”
In exchange for Weiner’s agreement to withdraw his amendment during the House Energy and Commerce Committee health care markup session, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) promised to permit Weiner to bring H.R. 676 to a vote on the House floor.
But will the House leadership direct the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to provide a comparative cost analysis between single-payer and alternative plans so that Congress and the American people can make an informed choice? And why have they refused to do so so far?…
One of the core arguments on behalf of a single-payer system is cost effectiveness. Many of the figures — like the fact that 31% of health care costs in the U.S. go to what I have called the unnecessary parasites, for-profit carriers and HMOs, as compared to administrative costs in the 1 to 2% range in single-payer countries — are well known by those who have paid attention.
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