Single-payer healthcare systems (Canada, UK) create systematic underinvestment in innovation by having strong incentives to stint on spending and limit innovation rather than expand beneficial treatments.

causalpending

Speaker

Tyler Cowen

Evidence Quote

if you look at the pure or single single payer systems, Canada or the UK, they're very fiscally strapped. They grossly underinvest. Most of the incentives are to stint and drive down prices and not actually want to see too much innovation. [21:46]

Source

Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda | Conversations with TylerMercatus Center
Created: 8/11/2026, 8:01:31 AM

My Notes

Loading notes...