Three open-ended questions; please provide your thoughts. Send responses to healthjust...@gmail.com (or just hit “reply” to the HJM email).
1) What problems with current US health insurance do you find most vexing & motivating – i.e., causing the worst harms (health and/or financial), provoking the most intensive frustration with current insurance, boosting popular desire for universal public insurance?
2) How does the current broad political context harm or advance universal public insurance efforts? E.g., an aggressively conservative federal administration (including cuts to public insurance); a determined progressive response; shifting electoral terrain.
3) Your strategic / tactical ideas: What methods to promote reform will break the 60-year impasse on universal health insurance? E.g., federal vs state action; all-at-once vs incremental steps such as lowering the Medicare age or universal primary care; highlighting the moral imperative vs system design optimization?
We will summarize and synthesize the responses and report back to HJM readers. We’ll use respondent names only with permission.
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