Medicare
Examining Conflicting Claims About ‘Medicare for all’
Amid intense political debate, studies have reached drastically different conclusions about a single-payer system’s price tag, cost to families and effect on the health system.
A Retirement Community That Comes to You
In continuing care at-home programs, members live in their own houses for years, with regular health check-ins.
What if the Road to Single-Payer Led Through the States?
A California congressman’s plan would lower federal barriers to letting states experiment with health care policy.
Hilary Clinton Discusses Medicare for All and Taxing the Wealthy
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested that “Medicare for all”-style health care and higher taxes on the very wealthy were politically impractical.
Warren Has Her Plan. Buttigieg Suggests Another Way to Cut Health Prices.
A single-payer system can lower prices by setting them. But lots of countries regulate prices and have private insurance, too.
Elizabeth Warren Is Asking the Most Important Question on Health Care
How can we move from a broken system to one that covers everyone, restrains prices and improves outcomes?
Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Pay for Medicare for All
Readers both praise her plan as a huge advance in American health care and criticize it as unachievable.
Elizabeth Warren Shouldn’t Be the Only One With a Plan
All the Democratic candidates need to come clean about their health care proposals and what they will do for Americans in need.
Warren Goes 1 for 2 on Medicare
The revenue ideas are pretty good. The plan is still a problem.
Innovative Drugs Save Lives Only if People Can Afford Them
Under a new bill, a handful of new drugs might never get produced. That would be worth it.
Innovative Drugs Save Lives Only if People Can Afford Them
Under a new bill, a handful of new drugs might never get produced. That would be worth it.
Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Medicare for All’ Math
She thinks a single-payer health care system can save more than other analysts think. Here’s where she says she’ll get the money to pay for it.
Did Warren Pass the Medicare Test? I Think So
Her plan is serious, even if it probably won’t happen.
Elizabeth Warren Proposes $20.5 Trillion Health Care Plan
Ms. Warren would impose huge tax increases on businesses and billionaires to pay for “Medicare for all,” but she said she would not raise taxes on the middle class.
Medicare Can Be Confusing: 6 of Your Top Questions, Answered
The New York Times asked readers to send their queries.
Why ‘Medicare for All’ Could Both Raise Taxes and Lower Costs
A crucial difference between a single-payer plan and more moderate Democratic proposals is how much spending would shift to the federal budget.
How Americans Split on Health Care: It’s a 3-Way Tie
Despite the lack of consensus, a new survey finds that almost two-thirds of the public favors Democratic approaches.
The Climate Is More Important Than Medicare
The 2020 campaign is obsessed with the wrong issue.
Are Democrats Willing to Pay More in Taxes for Medicare for All?
Elizabeth Warren has declined to acknowledge that middle-class taxes would need to go up to pay for a single-payer health care system. How would Democratic voters feel if she did?
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