Symposia: Medicare for All

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Medicare for All: How to Reduce Inequality in the Long-Term Care Market

By Ruqaiijah Yearby

This post is part of our symposium on Medicare for All. You can find all the posts in the series here. *** Medicare for All has the potential to address gaps in access to quality long-term care services for the elderly by mitigating some of the inequities in the market for long-term care. It could do…

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Medicare for All: A Leap into the Known?

By Nathan Cortez

My contribution to this symposium argues not only that some version of Medicare for All is necessary, but also that it may not be as radical as critics claim.

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Medicare for All and Medicare for America: What Are We Fighting Over? Part II

By Christina S. Ho

While the Medicare for America bill is arranged with great promise and enormous care, its real significance lies not in this snapshot description but in the distributional and politico-historical dynamics that its opt-out structure unleashes over time.

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Medicare for All and Medicare for America: What Are We Fighting Over? Part I

By Christina S. Ho

This post is part of our symposium on Medicare for All. You can find all the posts in the series here. *** The early contours of the health care debate have featured a loose divide between those favoring so-called “single-payer Medicare for All,” and those who propose some kind of “public option.” To drill down to…

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Medicare for All as a Democratic Movement

By Allison K. Hoffman

Over the past three decades, the primary policy solution to the mismatch between high spending and poor outcomes has been to turn to consumerism and market competition for a fix. The underlying theory is that if people have options—options for health plans, hospitals, prescription drugs, providers, and so on—they will choose the higher-value options. In turn, competitors will in theory produce higher-value options to win more customers.