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Acknowledgments

Single-Payer Health Care by the Numbers

A Reading Guide to S. 1129, the Medicare for All Act

A Reading Guide to H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act

Introduction

1If You Like Your Plan, You Can’t Keep It

2“Medicare for None” Will Harm Seniors

3The $32 Trillion Question: How Government Spending Will Rise

4How Single Payer Will Shock the Economy

5The Problems with “Doctor Sam”

6Single Payer’s Road to Health-Care Rationing

7The Pain Other Single-Payer Systems Inflict

8The “Camel’s Nose” Approach to Enacting Single Payer

9A Better Path Forward

Conclusion

Appendix: Section-by-Section Analysis of H.R. 1384 and S. 1129, Medicare for All Act of 2019