Bernie Sanders Single Payer Healthcare
Re: "Sanders redefines what it means to be a 'democratic socialist'", Sunday Oct 18 Mr. Weigel and Mr. Fahrenthold, I am writing you regarding an article that was printed in this past Sunday's Washington Post entitled " Sanders redefines what it means to be a'democratic socialist .'" In the last column of the article on page A7 you write that "Sanders wants the government to start providing it to everybody, a national single-payer system that might cost something like $15 trillion." By means of establishing my credibility, I have a master's degree in health policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and have worked on health policy the Maryland General Assembly, National Partnership for Women and Families, and Kaiser Permanente. My quarrel is with the $15 trillion that you write would cost, presumably, tax payers and health insurance premium payers should a single-payer system ...