Column: The cure for healthcare? An end to selfishness
(WorldNews Health)

There´s a big reason why Americans pay about twice as much for healthcare as people in other developed countries, and it´s not corporate greed or political cowardice, although those are also factors. It´s selfishness. This was highlighted for me by the dozens of emails I received in response to my column last week on `Medicare for all.` I laid out the case for why conservative claims of financial Armageddon were wrong and why a national single-payer insurance plan could save us trillions of dollars annually. Gerald Kominski, a professor of health policy and management at UCLA, told me that once you clear away all the complicated policy brush, there´s one inescapable conclusion about Medicare...