Becker's Healthcare January 7, 2022
While conversations around partisanship, funding and education surround President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, spectators are largely ignoring how close the bill brings the U.S. to reaching universal healthcare, Washington Post columnist Katherine Rampell wrote Jan. 6.
In 2010, the Affordable Care Act was supposed to bring the U.S. up to international healthcare standards and move the needle closer to a single-payer model, she writes. However, Ms. Rampell said Obamacare has “unfinished business,” including failing to reach universal coverage and allowing states to opt out of Medicaid expansion.
Ms. Rampell said that as is currently written,...
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