Monday, January 29, 2007

Op-ed: "Fix the system with Medicare for all"

Dr. Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School and former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, wrote an op-ed published in today's Boston Globe: Fix the system with Medicare for all.

Looks like the "medicare for all" framing is catching on, which I couldn't cheer more.

In coming weeks, I'll analyze some of the state plans like those in MA that try to cobble together fixes without fundamentally changing the employer-provided insurance foundation. Obviously, some politicians prefer incremental approaches, but these seem to be particularly inefficient models.

So, the $64,000 (or, um $1.9 trillion) question is:
Besides phasing Medicare in for younger workers, what are other incremental approaches progressives might pursue?

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