The Washington Post made a stunning admission in their Sunday editorial that deviates from their left-wing bent: a single-payer health care system isn't feasible in the United States.
The Post argued that while there are benefits to such a system, it would come at an "astonishing" price.
"When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) proposed a 'Medicare for all' health plan in his presidential campaign, the nonpartisan Urban Institute figured that it would raise government spending by $32 trillion over 10 years, requiring a tax increase so huge that even the democratic socialist Mr. Sanders did not propose anything close to it," The Post wrote.
The Post added that the Urban Institute's figure was likely correct because currently "the U.S. government spends more per American to cover a slice of the population than other governments spend per citizen to cover all of theirs," so simply expanding the government's involvement in health care wouldn't be enough.
SHOCK: WaPo Actually Acknowledges That Single-Payer Isn't Feasible
The Post argued that while there are benefits to such a system, it would come at an "astonishing" price.
"When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) proposed a 'Medicare for all' health plan in his presidential campaign, the nonpartisan Urban Institute figured that it would raise government spending by $32 trillion over 10 years, requiring a tax increase so huge that even the democratic socialist Mr. Sanders did not propose anything close to it," The Post wrote.
The Post added that the Urban Institute's figure was likely correct because currently "the U.S. government spends more per American to cover a slice of the population than other governments spend per citizen to cover all of theirs," so simply expanding the government's involvement in health care wouldn't be enough.
SHOCK: WaPo Actually Acknowledges That Single-Payer Isn't Feasible