Tag: single payer

older couple with advisor discussing finances

In terms of popularity, reviewing Medicare plans during the open enrollment, going on now, ranks right up there with doing taxes. Retirees on Medicare view healthcare as their most burdensome expense.  But they are less likely to comparison shop for Medicare plans than for their groceries and gas, even though plan shopping would probably sav…

Stethoscope on dollar banknotes

I am so delighted that I’m not a health care expert.  It allows me to opine without being constrained by complications.  Recently, I suggested that the time may have come to consider a single payer system, similar to those in many other countries.  In passing, I asserted that the United States already spends substantially more,…