In a prior post, I wrote about a report from the California Senate Appropriations Committee that estimated the cost of a proposed single payer system in the state. The report concluded that, under the single payer plan, health expenditures in the state would be around $400 billion per year, or 15% of California’s GDP. Although… Continue reading California Single Payer Costs Look Very Doable
Idiotic Commentary on California’s Single Payer Push
As I noted in an earlier post, California’s single payer plan is turning out to be shockingly cheap, if a recent report estimating its costs is to be believed. Sadly, the coverage of the plan so far is largely full of idiotic commentary that fails to think correctly about the costs associated with the plan,… Continue reading Idiotic Commentary on California’s Single Payer Push
Single Payer Payroll Taxes
Presently, three types of actors pump money into the US health care system: the government funds programs like Medicaid and Medicare; employers pay premiums to private insurers; and individuals pay premiums to private insurers and pay deductibles and copayments. Shifting to a single payer system requires capturing these various flows of money and redirecting them… Continue reading Single Payer Payroll Taxes
California’s Surprisingly Cheap Single Payer Plan
There is coverage today of a new report from the California Senate Appropriations committee estimating the budgetary implications of a proposed single payer health plan for the state (Sacramento Bee, LA Times, Vox). I’ve not yet been able to access the report directly, but the coverage of it is pretty encouraging. After the implementation of… Continue reading California’s Surprisingly Cheap Single Payer Plan
More Job Guarantee Muddle
The Center for American Progress wrote a post today advocating for a job guarantee. As with similar posts written by others sympathetic to the idea, the CAP proposal was muddled and failed to offer any plausible jobs that could actually be offered in a JG program. When you clear out the bloat, the proposal is… Continue reading More Job Guarantee Muddle