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Medicare For All

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Medicare For All

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Medicare For All is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between November 11, 2021 and November 25, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “maybe Medicare For All for good measure”; “Medicare For All asks that we go from one of the most privatized health systems in the world to one of the most socialized”; “How would Medicare For All affect rising health care prices?“. It most often appears alongside Canada, facebook, Germany.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: November 11, 2021
  • Last seen: November 25, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On Orban
November 11, 2021 · Original source
…is I think how conservative Orban supporters model the situation. But I’m not sure it’s that simple. Trump had a lot of problems getting anything done. But Biden isn’t having an easy time either, judging by the increasingly-shabby-looking reconciliation bill. If Biden wants $3.5 trillion in spending, a tax on unrealized capital gains, and maybe Medicare For All for good measure, who does he have to crush? Maybe the “liberalism = hewing to elite opinion = playing on easy mode” equivalence isn’t the right way to think of things.
Book Review: Which Country Has The World's Best Health Care?
January 19, 2022 · Original source
I’m also surprised this doesn’t get brought up more in discussions of US health reform. Medicare For All asks that we go from one of the most privatized health systems in the world to one of the most socialized, leapfrogging over successful semiprivate ones like Germany and the Netherlands. This is especially odd since those systems seem to be some of the best performers. Why would this be tempting? Absent a theory of why Germany and the Netherlands work so much better than the US, I’m not sure.
If The Media Reported On Other Things Like It Does Effective Altruism
November 25, 2022 · Original source
5. How would Medicare For All affect rising health care prices? We asked Emile Torres, then refused to consult anyone else or double-check anything they said.