re: #493 lawhawk

Can you scale the Singapore example to a national level covering 300 million plus people?

Yes. In many ways, we already have. We are not very far away from the Singapore system; we have broad mix of private and public hospitals. As you’ve noted, I think health care savings accounts are a good match for US citizens, since we like the idea of personal responsibility and saving for disasters. The means-based subsidies are effectively what happens already, where people with health insurance and taxpayers subsidize the health care costs of those without health insurance.

Can you explain a reason why you think the system wouldn’t scale— or rather, what scale has to do with it?