Eventually, however, our health-care system will be restructured. It has to be. The current fee-for-service paradigm, with doctors and hospitals being paid through for-profit insurance companies, is needlessly inefficient and ruinously expensive.<\/p>\n
When people talk about out-of-control government spending, they\u2019re really talking about rising medical costs that far outpace any conceivable rate of economic growth. The conservative solution \u2014 shift those costs to the consumer \u2014 is no solution at all.<\/p>\n
Our only choice is to try to hold the costs down. President Obama tried to make a start with a modest approach that works through the current system. If this doesn\u2019t pass constitutional muster, the obvious alternative is to emulate other industrialized nations that deliver equal or better health-care outcomes for half the cost.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m talking about a single-payer health-care system. If the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare, a single-payer system will go from being politically impossible to being, in the long run, fiscally inevitable.<\/p>\n
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