{"id":2601,"date":"2020-04-24T19:48:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2020-04-24T19:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T19:48:54","slug":"its-time-to-move-past-employer-based-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2601","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to move past employer-based health insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“in July, the Center for American Progress released its \u201cMedicare Extra<\/a>\u201d proposal. As I wrote\u00a0at the time<\/a>, the plan was, and is, an intriguing synthesis of left and moderate ideas on health reform. It\u2019s universal, it uses Medicare\u2019s pricing power to hold down costs, it rebuilds the health system around public insurance \u2014 and it gives everyone, everywhere, a true choice between public and private options, no matter what their employer is offering. In all those ways, it goes much further than Bidencare.”
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“Medicare Extra retains private insurance options, allows employers to continue offering insurance to employees if they think they can provide something better than the public option, and it holds the total price tag to somewhere in the $2.8 trillion to $4.5 trillion range. Which is to say, it\u2019s not nearly as disruptive as Sanders\u2019s Medicare-for-all bill, and it only requires about a tenth of the tax increases.”
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“The plan saves money by expanding Medicare\u2019s pricing power throughout the system \u2014 including to employer-provided private insurance. It\u2019s the first of the major Democratic proposals to rely on a version of\u00a0all-payer rate setting<\/a>.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/4\/9\/21210353\/coronavirus-health-insurance-biden-sanders-medicare-for-all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“in July, the Center for American Progress released its \u201cMedicare Extra\u201d proposal. As I wrote at the time, the plan was, and is, an intriguing synthesis of left and moderate ideas on health reform. It\u2019s universal, it uses Medicare\u2019s pricing power to hold down costs, it rebuilds the health system around public insurance \u2014 and it gives everyone, everywhere, a true choice between public and private options, no matter what their employer is offering. In all those ways, it goes much further than Bidencare.”<\/p>\n

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“Medicare Extra retains private insurance options, allows employers to continue offering insurance to employees if they think they can provide something better than the public option, and it holds the total price tag to somewhere in the $2.8 trillion to $4.5 trillion range. Which is to say, it\u2019s not nearly as disruptive as Sanders\u2019s Medicare-for-all bill, and it only requires about a tenth of the tax increases.”<\/p>\n

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“The plan saves money by expanding Medicare\u2019s pricing power throughout the system \u2014 including to employer-provided private insurance. It\u2019s the first of the major Democratic proposals to rely on a version of all-payer rate setting.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}