MPR News August 15, 2018
David Leonhardt and Atul Gawande discuss health care at the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival.
Dr. Atul Gawande, the famed surgeon, New Yorker writer and best-selling author was invited to the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado to address the question, “Is health care a human right?”
Atul Gawande says our health care system is a hodge-podge, and there will be winners and losers in the transition to something better and more affordable.
The reason there is greater support for Medicare, than for Medicaid and Obamacare, Gawande says, is because we all pay for Medicare, according to our income, and we feel we’re benefiting fairly.
He referred to the “World War II mistake,” when employers facing wage controls were allowed to give...
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