• Medicare for All is Not Happening... 10 years from now will we have Medicare Advantage for All? Grandmother and granddaughter in the same health plan? Others have written that the U.S. should achieve universal health insurance coverage, better health outcomes, and lower costs via comprehensive programs such as “Medicare for All,” as proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders. More recently, Amy Finkelstein and Liran Einav suggested a much more limited universal, national “basic” plan in their book We’ve Got You Covered. Their proposal couples a public plan with a robust market for supplemental programs. Think of a stripped-down Medicare with covered[...]

    Medicare for All is Not Happening... 10 years from now will we have Medicare Advantage for All? Grandmother and granddaughter in the same health plan? Others have written that the U.S. should achieve universal health insurance coverage, better health outcomes, and lower costs via comprehensive programs such as “Medicare for All,” as proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders. More recently, Amy Finkelstein and Liran Einav suggested a much more limited universal, national “basic” plan in their book We’ve Got You Covered. Their proposal couples a public plan with a robust market for supplemental programs. Think of a stripped-down Medicare with covered[...]

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