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Is Biden's Healthcare plan going to lead to someone worse than Trump in 2024?

Asked by gorillapaws (30518points) January 22nd, 2021

According to this article: Joe Biden Lifted His Health Care Plan From Insurance Industry Lobbyists, Biden’s healthcare plan is abandoning a public option in favor of increasing subsidies to insurance companies (which raised a ton of money for his campaign). From the article:

“While Medicare for All could actually save the country up to $650 billion annually, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Biden is now proposing some of the most costly and inefficient ways to expand health insurance coverage. The moves could still leave people exposed to substantial out-of-pocket costs — from deductibles, co-pays, and coinsurance — that act as barriers to care.”

Prior to the pandemic, about 45 thousand Americans die every year as a result of not having health insurance. That’s the equivalent of a 9/11 attack about every 24 days. Could pursuing such a deeply flawed policy approach to healthcare drive even more people to the Populist Right message in 2024? Are you disappointed this isn’t headline news?

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