New York Post
September 3, 2009
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Authors
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Professor of Public Policy, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø; Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, FAS
Abstract
If Congress creates a public option in health-care insurance, will that inevitably lead to a single-payer system, with the government everyone's insurer? And should that happen, would the single-payer system lower costs, enhance medical-service delivery and improve the health of all Americans, as its advocates promise.
Much can be learned about such questions by considering the history of secondary schools in America.
Citation
Peterson, Paul E. "Health Lessons from Schools." New York Post, September 3, 2009.