Single Payer: What Needs to be Included to Bend the Cost Curve?

The U.S. healthcare system has long been criticized for its complex design, high prices and inequitable coverage and uneven outcomes. Our fragmented payment system, in particular, has been cited as a reason for high healthcare spending and excessive administrative spending. One proposal to address these concerns is the concept of a “single-payer” healthcare system.

In this webinar, we will review this concept and explore the features that must be included to truly “bend the healthcare cost curve,” while maintaining or improving quality for patients. This webinar will showcase multiple speakers with a variety of perspectives, who will discuss how single payer might, or might not, curb healthcare spending.

Date and Time

May 16, 2019
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET

Speakers

• Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Eagan Kemp, Public Citizen
• Harold Pollack, University of Chicago
• Lynn Quincy, Healthcare Value Hub

Resources

Hub Products

• Hub Research Brief: Single Payer: Can it Bend the Cost Curve?
• Hub Research Brief: Excess Administrative Spending in Healthcare: Significant Savings Possible
• Hub Mini Glossary: Administrative Waste

External Resources 

• Harold Pollack. Single Payer Is Not a Principle, Democracy. (Fall 2017)
• Harold Pollack. Here’s Why Creating Single Payer Healthcare in America is So Hard, Vox. (January 2016)
• Gerald Friedman. Economic Analysis of Single Payer Health Care in Ohio: Context, Savings, Costs, Financing, The Hopsbrook Institute. (January 2019)
• Gerald Friedman. Yes, We Can Have Improved Medicare For All, The Hopbrook Institute. (Fall 2017)
• Eagan Kemp. The Case for Medicare-For-All, Public Citizen. (February 2019)
• Harold Pollack. Single-Payer Health Care Is More Popular Than Ever. Here are 10 Questions for its Future, Vox. (May 2016)
• Blumberg, Linda, and John Holahan. The Pros and Cons of Single-Payer Health Plans, The Urban Institute. (March 2019)