How Medicare for All Would Make America’s Coronavirus Response Worse, with Chris Jacobs

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Dan Crenshaw

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What would America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic look like under a Medicare for All/single payer system? Could we have responded to the crisis faster? Would we have the health care capacity (doctors, hospitals, equipment) to meet the demands of patients? How does our response compare to other countries which do have single payer systems?

Chris Jacobs, author of “The Case Against Single Payer,” returns to the podcast to examine the Democrats' claims that our country would be better off with Medicare for All, or even Joe Biden’s expanded buy-in version, during the COVID-19 crisis.

Chris Jacobs is founder and CEO of Juniper Research Group. Follow him on Twitter at @chrisjacobsHC.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	But all men are clean.
0:04.0	As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.8	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bio-terrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:18.0	We hold...
0:19.0	We hold these truths.
0:20.0	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:22.0	Here you go, I have landed.
0:24.0	Hey everyone, welcome back.
0:26.0	Today we're going to be talking about what if Medicare for all was a thing right now?
0:30.0	How would we be dealing with coronavirus and to help us with that discussion?
0:34.0	I'm bringing back my friend, Chris Jacobs.
0:36.0	And he is the author of the book, The Case Against Single Payer.
0:40.0	So you can probably tell where he's at on this issue.
0:43.0	And he's got a decade of experience on often on Capitol Hill.
0:48.0	He's worked as policy director for American NX,
0:50.0	which is a new startup, Think Tank, and Senior Policy Analyst for the Heritage Foundation
0:54.0	and the Joint Economic Committee's Senate Republican Staff.
0:57.0	Hey Chris, thanks for being back.
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