AXIOS December 22, 2019
Americans worry a lot about how to get and pay for good health care, but the 2020 presidential candidates are barely talking about what’s at the root of these problems: Almost every incentive in the U.S. health care system is broken.
Why it matters: President Trump and most of the Democratic field are minimizing the hard conversations with voters about why health care eats up so much of each paycheck and what it would really take to change things.
- Instead, the public debate focuses on ideas like how best to cover the uninsured and the relative virtue of health care “choice.”
The U.S. spent $3.6 trillion on health care last year, and almost every...
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