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What's possible? What's do-able? @ezraklein talks to the 4 top Senate Dems.
Very thoughtful. Very real.
So they are about:
• Start where we are, expand and improve Medicare and Obamacare
• Medicare at 50
• a "public option"
• vigorous action against costs, especially drugs
Health reform lives or dies in the Senate. So what did key Senate Democrats learn from Obamacare — and what kind of bill will they write next time?
I asked Sens. Brown, Stabenow, Warner, and Wyden. There’s more consensus than I expected: vox.com/policy-and-politics/…
300,000 more people with coverage!
Virginia passed Medicaid expansion last year, started enrolling people last fall. An estimated 400,000 people were eligible. Now 3/4 of them have signed up. Good for them, good for Virginia! #healthcare#medicaid
Maybe. Maybe.
Two things, though: 1) Canada may not allow this. They are already suffering a drug shortage. 2) So far all of this President's executive orders to lower the cost of healthcare have been fought to a standstill in the courts.
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25/26 The very structure of health care, as it exists today, means that no major player across the entire market is truly competing to provide the best medical care at the lowest cost.
26/26 The only serious way to evaluate any "reform" that lays claim to lowering prices is to ask:
How does this reform plan change the way we pay for healthcare, the economic foundation of the industry?