The Single Payer Threat Is Real

Two years ago, if you had asked me about the prospects for a single payer health care system to be adopted in the United States, I would have said that there was essentially no chance in the foreseeable future. Single payer would be too expensive and too disruptive to both patients and providers. Even if you could cobble together a semi-functional legislative plan, the politics would never work. Short of catastrophe, there was no way it would ever happen.