Re: consensus on the need for single-payer national health care

[Comment on The Opinionator 3/17/2006: consensus on the need for single-payer national health care]

All healthcare systems have rationing, because money is not unlimited.

But there are sensible ways to “ration”, by looking at the outcomes and costs and ranking them, then “drawing the line” where the money runs out based on actuarial estimates.

The Oregon Health Plan has done that effectively.  The Oregon Health Plan has been so poorly funded in the last few years that the legislature has both cut the amount and fiddled with the principle so that it is barely recognizable.

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