Pitney Bowes’ Mike Critelli on single-payer:
Medicare, in particular, ludicrously controls the payouts for individual clinical interventions for Alzheimer’s, and, I am sure, other conditions, to reduce today’s costs, but ignores opportunities for investments in health that will save on future costs. By the way, this is one of the reasons I am strongly opposed to any “single-payer” health system in the United States. Given our approach to democratic government, I have no confidence that politicians, who tightly control and micromanage Medicare and its clinical processes, would think beyond the current fiscal year in how they manage medicine. If there were a single-payer, the whole medical system would make these dysfunctional trade-offs, instead of just the part controlled by Medicare.
(via The WSJ Health Blog)
