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OPS Policy Work Group Papers

Insurance Industry “Trojan Horses” in “Single-Payer” Proposals

at both the state and federal level, including Bernie Sanders’ S 1129 (2019-2020), include features that compromise the principles that would make a single-payer system as cost-effective as it could and should be. MORE.

Optimizing payment of physicians for a single-payer healthcare system.

By Stephen Kemble and OPS Policy Working Group. Nov. 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sharp drop in health care funding through employment and from state taxes, making consideration of a federally funded single-payer healthcare system for the U.S. more urgent than ever. More.

Hospital Payment Under Single-Payer Proposals: Payments to Risk-Bearing Entities Versus Budgets for Hospitals

By Stephen Kemble and Kip Sullivan June 20, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the severe flaws in financing health care through employment and state tax revenues, both of which have experienced sharp reductions due to the pandemic. More.

Principles for Designing a Cost-Effective Single-Payer System

By Stephen Kemble and OPS Policy Working Group July 22, 2020

U.S. healthcare is the least cost-effective in the developed world, by far, with widespread failures in both access to care and cost control. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sharp drop in major sources of health care funding through employment and from state taxes, so consideration of a federally funded single-payer healthcare system for the U.S. is now more urgent than ever. More.

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