U.S. Elections 2020: Understanding What's At Stake For Health Care

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With the Iowa caucus and major primaries just weeks away, many voters say they're still confused about how presidential candidates differ on health care. Here's a guide to key issues and terms.

Overall, U.S. health spending is more than twice the average of other Western nations, and it's not just a matter of high drug prices. No wonder voters list health and the high price of care as one of their major election concerns as they head to the polls.Overall, U.S. health spending is more than twice the average of other Western nations, and it's not just a matter of high drug prices.

With voting about to begin in many states, here's a guide to some key health care terms, issues and policy differences at play:Universal coverage is any method of ensuring that all of a nation's residents have health insurance. Other countries do it

 

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All disasters. All lunatic liberal ideology

I get 10-15 minutes with a doctor. Sometimes it takes days trying to get a prescription that is covered. Single payer can eliminate that problem.

All you need to know.

The quickest guide is one word:unsustainable

AnnabelleHawk2 Single Payer (Medicare for All - the real bill) has been studied for decades. Here's a study from the National Institutes of Health which concluded that we would save 15% on total healthcare spending while covering EVERYBODY. No other plan comes close.

Eric Ciamarella

Alex, I'll take 'things not taught in public school' for $100

Except basically they are all the same thing. They're absorbents for the cat box in America because trump will never leave the White House.

THANK YOU! We need more articles like this actually explaining differences in policy! M4A MedicareForAll

They can and should all be the same thing if people aren't knit-picking words for politics

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pagan usa ; we will pass the 3000 page law , then the serfs can f====g deal with it , read it , or hire someone to rea....

Well, one thing they all have in common is that they are a cue for the ignorant and complicit to set their hair on fire and froth incoherently about socialism.

Medicare saves money, is managed efficiently, and does an outstanding job of representing it’s patients. It’s the bread n butter of HMO’s. Because of Medicare’s oversight, Hospital admin don’t dare cross as many unethical lines. It’s the best program ALL Americans deserve!

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