Our Health Care Debate Is Focused on Insurance. That’s a Mistake.

Undark November 14, 2019
Suhas Gondi

We need to broaden the conversation from a narrow discussion of health insurance to a larger conversation about health.

THE NEXT Democratic debate is less than a week away, and it’s likely that health care will once again take center stage. Once again, the candidates will spar over the best way to achieve universal coverage. Once again, the progressives will talk up the benefits of Medicare For All while the moderates attack it for its high cost and lack of choice. Just like the last debate. And the one before.

But it’s not the repetitiveness of the health care debate that bothers me. As a medical student, what bothers me is that the current health care debate is myopically focused...

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