No, single-payer isn’t more credible now because of coronavirus
There’s a dangerous temptation among politicians to use a crisis to justify making bad policy. As former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel once said: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”
During a recent Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders said the coronavirus crisis highlighted the need for a government-run healthcare system, like they have in Italy.
Sanders apparently did not want to waste the coronavirus crisis, though his efforts were swatted a
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