Monday, October 30, 2017
What happens when there are no doctors?
Jason Richwine:
Compare health care with education. Public schools are essentially single-payer education systems within the areas they cover. When was the last time we heard anyone argue that public schools are a great tool for containing education costs? When has Bernie Sanders or any Democrat called for the government to push down teacher salaries in order to save money? Any suggestion that teachers should be paid less is met with the obvious counter-argument that teaching quality would suffer. And yet single-payer health care, which comes with the explicit promise to pay doctors less, is supposed to reduce costs without reducing quality. By what magic?Perhaps we should set up a similar system for lawyers.
