Americans Satisfied With Their Current Health Coverage, Lean Against Single Payer, Finds New PRI Survey…

By Bill Hammond | NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | Jul 01, 2016 | 5:00 AM
Proponents of a single-payer health plan for New York pitch it as a cure-all — one fix that would achieve universal coverage, let people to go to any doctor or hospital, abolish copays and deductibles, cut down on paperwork, and save billions in the bargain.
Forty-five billion dollars, to be precise — or so said Assembly Health Chairman Richard Gottfried of Manhattan, as the Democrat-controlled lower house passed his New York Health Act on June 1.