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Universal health care would ensure that everyone was eligible for care regardless of any conditions they may have. And, if universal health care is so awful, why has every other...
Universal health care would improve individual and national health outcomes. Since 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the public health, economic and moral repercussions of widespread dependence on employer-sponsored insurance, the most common source of coverage for working-age Americans….
The COVID pandemic adds a new sense of urgency to establish a universal health care system in the United States. Our current system is inequitable, does not adequately cover vulnerable groups, is cost prohibitive, and lacks the flexibility to respond to periods of economic and health downturns.
The bill, which has 16 Democratic cosponsors, would expand Medicare into a universal health insurance program, phased in over four years. (The bill hasn’t gone anywhere in a...
The Sanders plan envisages a single payer health care system, where the federal government provides universal coverage to all Americans. Under this plan, Medicare and Medicaid would go away — in name at least — with some exceptions for elective procedures. Studies show that costs could be between $25 trillion and $32 trillion over 10 years.
If the U.S. had had a single-payer universal health care system in 2020, nearly 212,000 American lives would have been saved that year, according to a new study. In addition, the country would have saved $105 billion in COVID-19 hospitalization expenses alone.
The United States spends almost one-fifth of its gross domestic product on health care, the most in the world, and yet its residents have a lower life expectancy, 78.6 years, and a higher...
Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID. The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended...
Many health care systems have constrained utilization and cost growth without resorting to cost barriers while achieving universal coverage and a more equitable distribution of care.
The many health-care plans and proposals (Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, and Medicare for More or for All bills) have one aim: to provide affordable health care to all Americans. Models of successful, affordable, and accessible universal health-care systems already exist in other countries.