TO HEAR Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) say it, one would think that creating a single-payer, Medicare-for-all health-care system is easy. Every other developed country in the world guarantees health coverage to its people, the democratic socialist argues, and so can the United States. If the United States were creating a health-care system from whole cloth, Mr. Sanders would have a better point. But in reality, Medicare-for-all is not the only way to get to universal coverage; it is just the highly disruptive one Mr. Sanders prefers. But that is not the future Mr. Sanders is selling.

Source: Washington Post May 04, 2019 22:23 UTC