single-payer

To healthcare reformers such as single-payer advocates Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, the confessional by Einav and Finkelstein “may signal an encouraging shift in elite opinion, at least among economists,” as they wrote recently in the New York Review of Books.

Spellberg advocates for a collective mobilization and makes a number of interesting proposals, including a universal, single-payer national insurance plan with co-pays for specialty care and prescription drugs, which would be funded by “centrally collected taxes that everyone pays.”

Sanders and Warren have both advocated for a single-payer health system similar to ones adopted in other countries, including Sanders' Medicare for All proposal that would guarantee the right "for Americans to go see a doctor when they're sick" and "not go bankrupt after staying in a hospital."

To do that, she has shifted a number of her positions - from border security to single-payer health care - to the centre.

Likewise, single-payer, negotiated drug prices, and price caps were instantly off the table in health care reform, thanks to the money power of the health care-industrial complex.