Health Reform via State Waiver
If states can demonstrate success in implementing progressive health reforms, national health reform may follow.
Medicare for All
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Read more: Possibilities and Pitfalls of Health Reform Through Budget Reconciliation Possibilities and Pitfalls of Health Reform Through Budget Reconciliation
Expanding health insurance coverage may be on the menu through budget reconciliation.
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Read more: Bail Out Humans Bail Out Humans
Our government bails out large risks in many arenas. Yet we fail to backstop the most human risk of all — our vulnerability to suffering and death.
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Read more: A Long View on Health Insurance Reform: The Case for an Employer Public Option A Long View on Health Insurance Reform: The Case for an Employer Public Option
The Biden administration should offer employers a Medicare-based public health insurance option for their employee coverage.
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Read more: Biden’s Early Focus: Durable and Attainable Private Insurance Biden’s Early Focus: Durable and Attainable Private Insurance
The focus of the nascent Biden administration has been on making private health insurance more durable, not deconstructing it.
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Read more: Symposium Introduction: Recommendations for a Biden/Harris Health Policy Agenda Symposium Introduction: Recommendations for a Biden/Harris Health Policy Agenda
This digital symposium explores recommendations for the Biden/Harris administration’s health policy agenda.
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Read more: How a Public Option Would Lead to Single Payer How a Public Option Would Lead to Single Payer
In this post, I walk through three ways that many public option proposals would pave the way for single payer.
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Read more: Medicare-for-All Wouldn’t be Medicare if it Eliminated Private Insurance Medicare-for-All Wouldn’t be Medicare if it Eliminated Private Insurance
By Robert Field Should Medicare-for-All replace private insurance? That question, although central to many current health reform debates, presents a fundamental contradiction. If Medicare-for-All were to eliminate private coverage, it wouldn’t be Medicare, which has made room for private insurers from the start. Medicare could have been designed as a pure single payer with comprehensive…
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Read more: Healthcare Already Taking Center Stage in 2020 Democratic Primary Race Healthcare Already Taking Center Stage in 2020 Democratic Primary Race
While many issues are likely to play a prominent roles in this campaign, healthcare is likely to play an outsized role.
