Single payer meets managed competition: the case for public funding and private delivery.
Common sense and empirical evidence suggest that single-payer health insurance, combined with competitive private delivery, would be the most cost-effective way of achieving the major, widely accepted goals of health care reform. Among the current presidential candidates, Kucinich and Gravel have the most promising reform proposals, with Edwards's and Obama's as fall-backs.
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David
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Department of Philosophy, George Washington University, USA.
D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D004465:Economic Competition; D005380:Financing, Government; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D018855:Single-Payer System; D014481:United States