Single-payer healthcare proposal should free the market to allow choice in coverage by Americans

President Lyndon Johnson signs the Medicare bill in 1965. (Photo/White House)

President Lyndon Johnson signs the Medicare bill in 1965. (Photo/White House)

Democrats are calling the newest single-payer healthcare proposals “Medicare for All.” America has three major systems of government healthcare: Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans’ Administration (VA). Is a single-payer system more likely to resemble Medicare or Medicaid?

President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society established Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 to cover elderly Americans and the poor…

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