New Public Health Study Findings Have Been Reported from Columbia University (States as Policy Laboratories: The Politics of State-Based Single-Payer Proposals)

2019 DEC 20 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on Health and Medicine - Public Health is now available. According to news originating from New York City, New York, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Although the focus for most single-payer advocates is in Washington, DC, and on proposals for Medicare for all, there are also efforts in a handful of states to enact a state-based single-payer program. Moreover, the odds of legislative passage are better in a state like New York than at the federal level.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Columbia University, “Even if enacted, however, state-based single-payer proposals face a distinct set of obstacles, including (1) the need to obtain federal permission (via waivers) to repurpose federal dollars, (2) the federal Employee Retirement Income and Security Act, and (3) the burden of state-only action in an interconnected 50-state economy. The most likely result of the energized single-payer movement will be incremental public insurance expansions at the federal and state levels, including state programs to permit the uninsured to buy into the Medicaid program.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Such an outcome is consistent with the most plausible path (incrementalism) to a US version of universal coverage.”

For more information on this research see: States as Policy Laboratories: The Politics of State-Based Single-Payer Proposals. American Journal of Public Health, 2019;109(11):1511-1514. American Journal of Public Health can be contacted at: Amer Public Health Assoc Inc, 800 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3710, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from M.S. Sparer, Columbia University, Dept. of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2019.305294. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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