MedCity News April 4, 2019
Advocates of “Medicare for All” like Bernie Sanders underestimate the significant challenges to its implementation while ignoring or dismissing alternative models that achieve the same goal: equitable healthcare access for all.
The healthcare industry doesn’t have a lot of fans among the American public these days. Polling by Gallup last year showed that only 34 percent of respondents have a positive view of it, ranking it near the bottom among industries.
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders tapped into that sentiment last week when he tweeted “You’re damn right” in response to a Republican National Committee Research tweet stating – as he did in an accompanying video interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes – that he wants to eliminate private health insurance.
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