Some candor from Tyler Cowen:
Health care has a murky relationship to human health, pharmaceuticals and broken limbs aside. A version of the single-payer system, as might be adopted in the United States, would not lower costs. We would be raising taxes and lowering medical innovation to give poor people a good deal more financial security and a slight bit more health; that is the relevant trade-off.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/01/the-healthcare-trade-off/221735/
