Is not having Single Payer on the table an immoral decision?
Every major faith tradition encourages those who have the means to help those who do not. So the question that keeps coming up is the following: Is it a moral issue that in the richest nation in the history of mankind more than 1 out of 8 people have no health coverage? That is the question that single payer addresses. Simply put health coverage for everyone. It is similar to what is the situation in countries with the best health coverage, who are spending much less than us on their per person health coverage. So, if done properly, single payer should not cost more than what we are collectively paying but less.These are social decisions but they are also moral ones. Single payer has strong support among physicians as well as in the population at large. The sad part is that it isn’t even on the table in the current health…
