Health Affairs December 5, 2019
Brian J. Miller, Gail R. Wilensky

As the debates amongst Democratic presidential candidates over single-payer health care reaches new heights, the Trump administration recently responded with its latest executive order targeting health care, laying out the administration’s vision for the future of the Medicare program.

Historically, improving the health system has been a bipartisan goal albeit with different visions of how to best do so. Most policy makers agree that Americans need to get the right care, at the right time, in the right place, from the right provider—and that the current system is financially unsustainable. Democrats have traditionally focused on coverage expansion and reducing consumer costs, the former best exemplified by the 2010 passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). In...

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