Single-Payer Health Care Is Here By 2026, If We Want It
(WorldNews Health)

One of the lessons the pandemic keeps pounding into our heads is how much our private, employer-based health insurance system sucks. Last year COVID-related job losses kicked millions of Americans off their health insurance, leaving them without coverage precisely when they needed it most. In Washington, those losses likely drove thousands to the state`s health care exchanges, where expensive premiums and high deductibles still reign despite recent efforts to lower costs through a price control program Gov. Jay Inslee likes to call `a public option,` and where many in need still make too much money to qualify for a subsidy. Even with that safety net in place, the Office of Financial...