Tincture November 11, 2019
Vikram Mangalmurti

Last week I laid out the broad outlines of a model to reform healthcare . In it, I laid out a proposal that I’ve called Universal Medicare Choice (UMC). Universal Medicare Choice is patterned after the existing Medicare Advantage program.

In this week’s article, I hope to lay out why I believe that such a plan is affordable.

In next week’s article, I will try to document the other structural and regulatory changes that need to be in place in order for this plan to work.

In the last article, I will focus on who wins and who loses.

Primer on UMC

The rough outlines of UMC are as follows:

1. Everyone, regardless of age, becomes eligible for UMC, they...

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