This episode originally aired on March 31, 2022.
Single-payer healthcare is a type of universal healthcare in which the costs of essential healthcare for all residents are covered by a single public system. The results of a 2020 Pew Research Study show there’s an increase in people saying health insurance should be provided by a single, national program.
The American Medical Association (A.M.A.) has long been an opponent of progressive health care reform, however, a younger generation of doctors are advocating for universal health care coverage.
We’ll look at whether single-payer health care is possible in the U.S.
GUESTS:
- Dr. Clifford Marks, Emergency-medicine resident, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
- Dr. Jonathan Ross, past president, Physicians for a National Health Program, associate clinical professor of medicine University of Toledo
- Robert E. Moffit, senior fellow Domestic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
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