Single Payer Sequel

The Oakland Tribune reports on a doctors' confab in California in favor of single-payer health care, which is, as Reason's own Ron Bailey predicted, emerging again as a hot political issue just in time for the 2004 presidential race. (Btw, Bailey's legitimate concern that libertarians and defenders of free enterprise are "failing to articulate a credible alternative, market-based vision of health care" will be addressed by a forthcoming story in Reason.)

Supporters of single-payer may be chastened to learn that the latest test of this failed miserably at the polls. Check out this Fraser Institute study of how health care in Canada, the favored model for reformers, stacks up to other developed countries.