The trouble with a so-called single-payer system is that it comes nowhere close to being single-payer. Every taxpayer will be paying for health care. It will be paid for in the form of higher taxes that will come out of the same pockets that pay for taxes and insurance now. The only difference will be that people who don’t pay taxes or insurance premiums now will get more stuff as reward for their non-contribution.

The best solution is for government and the insurance companies to get out of the health care business altogether. Health care costs would come down much quicker if everyone had to pay their own way. Then doctors and hospitals could only charge what people could afford to pay or they would go out of business.

A good example is the cost of food. How long do you think the average person could afford to eat if an insurance company or the government was paying for your food? The price of food would be 10 times higher than it is now and people wouldn’t care because someone else would be paying. There would also be much less variety. The law of supply and demand would create more competition and lower cost.

Ricky Young

Alton