Thursday, November 21, 2019

Trends in Employer Health Care Coverage, 2008–2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/2019/nov/trends-employer-health-care-coverage-2008-2018
There is one sentence buried in the last paragraph that describes an approach that would correct most of the deficiencies in our health care financing system: "Other members and candidates have suggested eliminating all private insurance and replacing it with a public plan like Medicare, and ending or reducing premiums and cost-sharing."

It is unfortunate that The Commonwealth Fund along with other organizations and media sources seem to have delegated this approach to a category of "aspiration" which can be dismissed because of a supposed lack of political feasibility.

Our task? Change the perception about political feasibility. Take to the streets if we have to.

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