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From the Mid-Hudson Valley Perspective Archive

LETTER TO THE POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL - SENT AUG. 4

by Bill Kriebel

The recent spate of letters calling for “single-payer” (i.e., government) health insurance brings to mind the age-old advice, “Be careful what you wish for”. A single-payer is fine if the payer is the patient, but a single-payer is also a single-decider, and when that decider has the force of law behind it, the outcome isn’t always pretty.

(Posted Friday, August 4, 2017 )   <Read it>

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