HealthExec February 18, 2020
Amy Baxter

A Medicare for all healthcare system has the potential to improve the availability of services and efficiency of care in the United States, according to a recent study published in The Lancet.

The study underscored that despite having the highest healthcare expenditure per capita, the U.S. still struggles with uninsured and underinsured people. Currently, about 37 million Americans are without health insurance, while another 41 million have inadequate access to care, according to Yale researchers who conducted the study.

The study comes at a time when the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are still attempting to remove the Affordable Care Act from law, potentially endangering another 21 million Americans from losing access to care, Yale researchers noted. Another 38,500...

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