Five Things You Need to Know About Medicare for All
Pantsuit Politics
Sarah & Beth
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
What You Need to Know About Medicare for All:
- Medicare: minus the "All" (02:19)
- Medicare is popular because it touches so many Americans. (09:09) Currently, 44 million beneficiaries—some 15 percent of the U.S. population—are enrolled in the Medicare program. Enrollment is expected to rise to 79 million by 2030. Only one in 10 beneficiaries relies solely on the Medicare program for health care coverage.
- Medicare for All is not really Medicare and it's not one thing. (14:10)
- The cost of these plans is very, very high. (17:24)
- The Taiwanese health care system is the closest equivalent which is why you hear so much about it. (21:38)
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Episode Resources:
- Medicare’s Private Option Is Gaining Popularity, and Critics (The New York Times)
- Side-by-Side Comparison of Medicare-for-all and Public Plan Proposals
- Medicare For All (Politico)
- Medicare-for-All Is Not Medicare, and Not Really for All. So What Does It Actually Mean? (ProPublica)
- Sanders Embraces New Study That Lowers ‘Medicare For All’s’ Cost, But Skepticism Abounds (Kaiser Health News)
- 9 things Americans need to learn from the rest of the world’s health care systems (Vox)
- A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US (PNHP)
- An Overview of Medicare (KFF)
- Here's How Warren Finds $20.5 Trillion To Pay For 'Medicare For All' (NPR)
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| 0:00.0 | I think it's really difficult because this cost conversation is happening in two realms. |
| 0:06.4 | Like you said, is it how much it cost the country? |
| 0:09.7 | Overall, how much we're all spending or how much it costs the government? |
| 0:17.2 | This is Sarah and Beth, your listening to Pantene's Politics, the home of Grace filled political |
| 0:22.4 | conversations. |
| 0:23.4 | Hello everyone. |
| 0:38.9 | We are back in your ears for another episode of Pantene's soup politics. |
| 0:43.3 | And before we get started on the five things you need to know about Medicare for All, we |
| 0:46.8 | wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who joined us on Hot Mike for the last |
| 0:52.2 | Democratic debate. |
| 0:53.2 | It was a hit. |
| 0:54.2 | It was super fun to watch it with you, Beth, instead of being in our separate platforms. |
| 0:59.1 | And to have everybody chatting along with us, we will definitely be on Hot Mike. |
| 1:03.0 | We're thinking for super Tuesday results. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm very excited. |
| 1:06.0 | And if you have trouble using the app, just let us know. |
| 1:08.6 | We'll send you some instructions. |
| 1:10.6 | Once you get in there, it's really fun and really easy. |
| 1:13.4 | And it made this debate where look, the whole analysis is that everyone is the primary |
| 1:18.1 | version of Hungary. |
| 1:19.7 | It was not a public viewing experience, but it made it so nice because we were all in |
| 1:23.5 | it together having really interesting conversations, even when the conversations happening on stage |
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