Medicare for All – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Wed, 23 Nov 2022 01:00:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Medicare for All – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 Medicare for All: How to Reduce Inequality in the Long-Term Care Market https://lpeproject.org/blog/medicare-for-all-how-to-reduce-inequality-in-the-long-term-care-market/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:00:35 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2921 This post is part of our symposium on Medicare for All. You can find all the posts in the series here. *** Medicare for All has the potential to address gaps in access to quality long-term care services for the elderly by mitigating some of the inequities in the market for long-term care. It could do this by increasing reimbursement rates for long-term care, fostering competition between long-term...

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]]> Medicare for All: A Leap into the Known? https://lpeproject.org/blog/medicare-for-all-a-leap-into-the-known/ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:00:58 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2738 This post is part of our symposium on Medicare for All. You can find all the posts in the series here. *** The Affordable Care Act of 2010 was the most significant health legislation since Congress created Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, breaking a half-century of health policy incrementalism. But thanks to the Senate, the final bill failed to include a “public option.” And thanks to the Supreme...

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]]> Medicare for All and Medicare for America: What Are We Fighting Over? Part II https://lpeproject.org/blog/medicare-for-all-and-medicare-for-america-what-are-we-fighting-over-part-ii/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:00:45 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2729 This post is part of our symposium on Medicare for All. You can find all the posts in the series here. You can view Part I of this article here. In yesterday’s post, I evaluated Medicare for All and considered some of the implications of a single-payer system. Today’s post will assess the Medicare for America bill, which, by contrast, is a public option. This label may not appear obvious...

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]]> Medicare for All and Medicare for America: What Are We Fighting Over? Part I https://lpeproject.org/blog/medicare-for-all-and-medicare-for-america-what-are-we-fighting-over-2/ Tue, 23 Jul 2019 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2719 This post is part of our symposium on Medicare for All. You can find all the posts in the series here. *** The early contours of the health care debate have featured a loose divide between those favoring so-called “single-payer Medicare for All,” and those who propose some kind of “public option.” To drill down to what’s really at stake, I looked at the leading and most detailed proposals...

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]]> Medicare for All as a Democratic Movement https://lpeproject.org/blog/medicare-for-all-as-a-democratic-movement/ Mon, 22 Jul 2019 11:00:25 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2704 This post is part of our symposium on Medicare for All. You can find all the posts in the series here. *** Medicare for All (MFA) has become the symbol of a larger, brewing movement that is attempting to bring major change to how we pay for and regulate health care in the United States. Even if MFA never becomes law, the conversation around it is building popular support for significant reforms...

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