With little fanfare, Congressional leaders may be near to agreeing on the most sweeping expansion of government in a generation – the de-facto takeover of the health insurance market by the government. Congressional Democrats are already icing the champagne. When the President’s “Medicare for all” plan is coupled with the budget, which contains a “down payment” of $634 billion over the next decade for health care, government-run health care may be inevitable.

The time for universal health insurance coverage has come. Everybody seems to know that — except for the Republicans, all too many of whom cling to traditional denunciations of universal coverage as socialism. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has been holding talks with Republican lawmakers over the past week, and all signs point to opposition from the GOP.

Last week’s health-care summit made clear that, as far as the president is concerned, the question is not whether the U.S. will enact universal coverage but how. 
 
When Obama gets it enacted, most historians will revere him as the president who finally dragged barbaric Americans into the modern world. But some may note that the Obama system worsened results for the sick and killed the promising genomic industry, in which the U.S. currently enjoys a world-wide lead. These are the inevitable results of the Obama administration’s push for a statist health-insurance …

Regina E. Herzlinger offers a prescription for how the NHS, and the United States, could benefit from the Swiss system of healthcare.
Can we all be assured of receiving the healthcare services we need at a price the economy can afford? In the UK the answer is a resounding No.
A recent report showed that Britain ranks last among the five largest European countries in its uptake of cancer drugs, which may account for its low five-year survival rates for diseases such as breast cancer – 78.4 per cent in the UK …

Massachusetts health care costs are a problem. The state has virtually the highest costs in the country and insurance premiums that rise more rapidly than national rates. The state’s near-universal health coverage shows that no good deed goes unpunished: As the state lowered the number of uninsured, costs increased.