Single Payer: Illusion? Delusion? Solution?

• In Event: Red and Blue: Partisian Divisions in US Health Policy

Abstract

This paper examines the policy implications of single payer proposals in the U.S. context especially from the standpoint of cost containment and coverage of both people and conditions. It also examines the political impediments to such a system as well as the significant transition costs, including transaction costs.

Author

• Bert A. Rockman, Purdue University