The false charms of Comrade Bernie Sanders’s single-payer plan

The Washington Post reports:

On examination, the single-payer proposal is a better campaign slogan than it is a realistic panacea for the nation’s health-care problems. It can’t escape a stubborn dilemma: How can we control spending for something that most Americans consider — as Sanders says — an open-ended “right”?

No word yet on whether Comrade Sanders thinks federal government workers can work cheaper than Blue Cross employees.