Single-payer: Does it increase mortality?

David Catron:

Conover also presents a good case that this heavy regulatory burden is actually responsible for patient deaths:4,000 more

Americans die every year from costs associated with health services regulation (22,000) than from lack of health insurance (18,000).

Obviously, the regulatory burden imposed by Washington will increase dramatically if the government is given full control of our health care system. Thus, socialized medicine””or “single-payer health care” as its advocates would have it””would give us a higher level of health care inflation combined with a higher than necessary rate of patient mortality.