Various proposals for the US health system have been put forward since the adoption of the Affordable Care Act. These include the public option, single payer, “Medicare For All.” Quality research on healthcare reform is of great importance. Following is a selection of significant recent articles and reports examining health system proposals:

A. P. Galvani PhD, et al. (The Lancet, 2020): Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA

Christopher Cai, et al. (PLOS Medicine, 2020): Projected costs of single-payer healthcare financing in the United States: A systematic review of economic analyses

Congressional Budget Office (CBO) (2019): Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) (2018): Economic Analysis of Medicare for All

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Page last updated Oct. 21, 2020 by Doug McVay, Senior Policy Analyst.