Budget Committee Considers Tradeoffs Of Single-Payer Health Care

Lawmakers stuck to partisan lines as they debated the tradeoffs of a single-payer health care system during a House Budget Committee hearing, with Republicans focusing on how a transition to the system could disrupt American health policy and Democrats highlighting the potential positive outcomes. Congressional Budget Office officials and lawmakers discussed how a single-payer system could affect patients, hospitals and employers and seemed to conclude that the system would cover more people than the current one but that the transition...