PRI November 11, 2019
There is plenty of talk about overhauling our health care system this election season, and, in recent weeks, attention has focused on Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s “Medicare for All” proposal. A majority of Americans (almost 70%) think that cutting health care costs should be a top priority for politicians, according to the Pew Research Center. Warren, a Democratic presidential candidate, wants to do away with private insurance coverage and introduce a government-managed plan, but would her proposal reduce costs if it was implemented?
Christy Ford Chapin, a historian at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and author of “Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System,” believes that the “insurance company model,” on which Medicare...
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