The True Workings of Single Payer Health Systems: Lessons or Warnings for U.S. Reform

Single payer health care is the ultimate goal for many progressives and the worst case scenario to many conservatives. The advocates of single payer laud its potential to ensure access and control costs, while critics deride it as the epitome of socialized medicine, bound to damage the quality of care and impair access by means of rationing and governmental meddling. What, however, do these policy combatants mean by single payer? How well do prevailing images fit the realities of present-day single payer health care systems?

An extraordinary conference will examine the true workings of single payer health systems. A host of policy makers will be joined by preeminent national experts including Bob Berenson, Lynn Blewett, Lawrence Brown, Jon Christianson, Roger Feldman, Sherry Glied, Scott Greer, Michael Gusmano, Lawrence Jacobs, Theodore Marmor, James Morone, Mark Peterson, Adam Oliver, Michael Scandrett, Michael Sparer, Deborah Stone, Kip Sullivan, Carolyn Tuohy, and Joe White.

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Support for this event was made possible in part by a generous gift from the Wallin Foundation.