AXIOS November 13, 2019
Americans pay higher out-of-pocket costs than most other wealthy countries, a byproduct of having the most expensive health care system in the world, according to the OECD.
Why it matters: Health care costs are at the heart of today’s most explosive health care debates, including Medicare for All, prescription drug prices and surprise medical bills.
Medicare for All has been offered by some Democrats as the solution to these issues of expense, but the version proposed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren “would leapfrog all these other countries in terms of generosity,” said the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Larry Levitt.
- “Other high income countries in the...
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