title: A single-payer system in Jackson Hole clothing.
abstract: President Clinton's Health Security Act relies on government regulation, not market forces, to control costs. The act creates an entitlement to comprehensive benefits and places the federal budget at risk for total health care costs in order to achieve universal coverage; it creates a system of new state purchasing monopsonies; and it attempts to control costs with price controls on health plan premiums, set and administered by a National Health Board that would be part of the executive branch, not insulated from political considerations. We believe there is a better way.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Enthoven
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Singer
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017754:Group Purchasing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007342:Insurance Benefits / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D015271:Insurance Pools / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009310:National Health Insurance, United States / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States