For all its flaws, American healthcare gets a lot right

We all know the problems with American healthcare. It costs too much, there are gaps in insurance coverage, healthcare markets are uncompetitive, provider payments are often incomprehensible, pricing is opaque, bureaucracy is metastasizing, and our citizens face absurd barriers to personal choice of plans and providers.

These problems cry for solutions. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) recently restated his timeworn remedy for our ills: a “single payer” system of government-run national health insurance.