The single payer plan for health care being debated in the Democrat-dominated California legislature is estimated to cost $400B per year, more than the total current state budget. Will the cost turn out to be higher if it's implemented? Silly question.
The trouble with all such plans is blazingly obvious: It attempts to defy the law of supply and demand, where the key word is "attempts."
When a good is priced at zero, demand goes through the roof, inevitably outstripping supply.
No-cost health care for all sounds nice, but the imbalance between supply and demand is not without consequences. If demand is not tempered by price, it has to be tempered by something, and that is shortages and long wait times, not to mention hits to quality. How many times does this have to be proven before liberals catch on?
Democrats tell us that a government-run program will be more cost-efficient. What a joke! There's certainly plenty of waste in the present system, but there is no endeavor that a government bureaucracy can't make less efficient and more costly.
Have Democrats not noticed the problems with VA health services? Several administrations have declared that they'll solve the problem once and for all, but it just keeps going. With single-payer, that's what we can look forward to for the entire population.
