With the Obama Administration aggressively pursuing “comprehensive health care reform,” interest in single payer health care is again on the rise. But single-payer is neither a new idea, nor a particularly good one. In a single payer health care system, all health care is purchased by the government so that individual consumers no longer have to pay for their treatments. However, such a system is unsustainable and inevitably leads to rationing of health care services. The following articles explain in depth the dangers of a single payer system.

Articles on Single Payer Health Care

• Nationalized Health Care Will Cut Costs? It Just Ain’t So! by Gene Callahan and Robert Murphy
• Medical Misunderstanding by Sheldon Richman
• What NBC Didnt Tell You About Health-Care Reform by Dr. Jane Orient
• Let’s Not Throw American Medicine into Boston Harbor by Dr. Jane Orient
• Socialized Failure by John Goodman
• Health-Care Demagogues by Doug Bandow
• Free-Market Medicine by Larry Van Heerdan
• Health Care: Over the Canadian Cliff? by Doug Bandow
• Single Payer: Neither Simple Nor Smart by Dr. Michael Glueck and Dr. Robert Cihak
• Twenty Myths About National Health Insurance by Mr. John C. Goodman and Mr. Gerald L. Musgrave

Audio on Single Payer Health Care

• Healthcare Policy: The Case for Freedom, not Government by Jane Orient, M.D.