Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“The U.S. health-care system is in many ways frustrating, and many of its failings are unique to our complex and fragmented system. Americans frequently ping-pong between a bewildering array of public and private insurers, none of whom are good at talking to each other, or our providers. … However wrong the online left was to celebrate Thompson’s death, they were right that these frictions make people unhappy, and some of them would go away in a more centralized single-payer system. (Though we pause to note that surprise billing was already mostly outlawed in 2022.) They’re still wrong, however, to assume that Americans are overwhelmingly miserable with what we have now, and would be happier if only the government took over.” (12/12/24)