title: Medicare for All - If It Were Politically Possible - Would Necessarily Replicate the Defects of Our Current System.
abstract: Medicare for All, ideally implemented, could offer powerful advantages over our current health care financial system. Unfortunately, the political obstacles to such a system are formidable and are likely to remain so for decades. More to the point, a politically viable single-payer system would not replace our currently dysfunctional health care politics. It would be a product of that same legislative process and political economy and thus be disfigured by the same interest group politics, path dependence, and fragmentation that Laurence Seidman rightly laments.
authors.affiliation: University of Chicago.
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pollack
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011057:Politics; D018855:Single-Payer System / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013660:Taxes; D014481:United States
keywords: Medicare for All; single payer