MedPage Today October 27, 2023
— Automatic basic coverage plus an optional supplement is the answer, says MIT professor
What’s the best way to ensure that everyone in the U.S. has health insurance and access to care? Amy Finkelstein, PhD, who has studied health economics for 20 years, is pretty sure she finally knows the answer.
After her father-in-law challenged her to tell him what was needed to fix the healthcare system, Finkelstein, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, and Liran Einav, PhD, an economics professor at Stanford University, California, wrote the book “We’ve Got You Covered,” to attempt to answer that question.
As for achieving universal coverage and access, “it’s two parts,” Finkelstein explained Thursday at an event in Washington, D.C., sponsored...
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