More 'Skin in the Game' May Give Perverse Result

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Wall Street Journal
June 17, 2009

You completely discount any administrative savings from a single-payer system.You also ignore the rising number of bankruptcies related to medical care. Every other country covers its citizens, the way it should be here.

Physicians for a National Health Program estimates savings of over $300 billion yearly in a single-payer plan. Why not debate its proposal on its merits and costs, not the derisive dismissal now taking place in Congress?

Thomas Clairmont, M.D.
Portsmouth, N.H.