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Tyler Cowen:
A few important differences, though, since Cowen isn't actually a left-wing single-payer advocate. It's not just that you can save money, but there are also significant gains from the point of view of equality and social justice. What's more, a single-payer system does allow you to funnel additional health care resources to a handful of areas -- notably prenatal and postnatal care and pediatrics -- where it's uncontroversially the case that delivery of non-expensive services brings about some significant gains. Beyond that, though, if you want to make people healthier you need to talk less about health care and more about the dread lifestyle.
More importantly, the claims "sound right wing" but actually they provide the best argument for single-payer health insurance to be found: "The link between health and health care is murky, so let's just save money on our health system."
A few important differences, though, since Cowen isn't actually a left-wing single-payer advocate. It's not just that you can save money, but there are also significant gains from the point of view of equality and social justice. What's more, a single-payer system does allow you to funnel additional health care resources to a handful of areas -- notably prenatal and postnatal care and pediatrics -- where it's uncontroversially the case that delivery of non-expensive services brings about some significant gains. Beyond that, though, if you want to make people healthier you need to talk less about health care and more about the dread lifestyle.
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