The Return of ‘Medicare for All’

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Democratic main voters in Michigan selected former Detroit public well being director Abdul El-Sayed as their Senate nominee this week. El-Sayed is one in every of a number of high-profile candidates across the nation who’ve been pushing “Medicare for All,” once more elevating the difficulty, at a time when thousands and thousands of People are dropping their well being protection due to excessive prices.

In the meantime, the Senate this week confirmed Erica Schwartz to guide the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, which has been with no everlasting chief for nearly a yr. However it stays unclear whether or not her help for childhood vaccinations will run afoul of her boss, Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Well being Information, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Faculty of Public Well being and Politico Journal, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Amanda Seitz of KFF Well being Information.

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Alice Miranda Ollstein

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Amanda Seitz

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Among the many takeaways from this week’s episode:

• El-Sayed’s main victory in Michigan means a vocal supporter of Medicare for All might be on the poll this fall. Progressives once more are rallying behind common healthcare as prices spike and extra folks lose their protection — though there are few particulars up to now to clarify how they might implement such a coverage.
• New polling reveals extra persons are experiencing “job lock” due to restricted choices to acquire healthcare protection outdoors employer-sponsored insurance coverage. In the meantime, extra hospitals are reporting a pointy rise within the variety of uninsured and within the prices to cowl them.
• A federal decide not too long ago declined to halt the implementation of Medicaid work necessities whereas contemplating a case introduced by a number of states difficult the coverage’s burden on sick folks. And early reviews out of Nebraska, the primary state to implement the work necessities, present eligible persons are dropping protection for administrative causes.
• Kennedy sat down for an interview with CNN, throughout which he couldn’t articulate particular plans to handle illness outbreaks — as a number of outbreaks are ongoing. And a Senate committee voted alongside social gathering traces Thursday to carry former public well being official Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his look earlier than the committee final week.

Additionally this week, as a part of the “How Would You Repair It?” sequence, Rovner interviews Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), who has a brand new invoice that would supply common well being protection for all kids.

Plus, for “further credit score” the panelists counsel well being coverage tales they learn this week that they assume you need to learn, too: 

Julie Rovner: The New York Occasions’ “Highlight on Fauci Stated To Enhance Ebook Gross sales for Kennedy and His Writer,” by Sheryl Homosexual Stolberg.  

Alice Miranda Ollstein: NOTUS’ “Rand Paul’s Fauci Diary Dump Uncovered Folks’s Medical Histories,” by Margaret Manto.  

Joanne Kenen: The New York Occasions Journal’s “The U.S. Depends on Household Caregivers. Tens of millions of Them Are Youngsters,” by Helen Ouyang.  

Amanda Seitz: The Wall Road Journal’s “A Florida Surrogate, a Father in China, and the Infants Caught Between,” by Katherine Lengthy.  

Additionally talked about on this week’s podcast:

• The Bulwark’s “The ‘Medicare for All’ Take a look at for Michigan Democrats,” by Jonathan Cohn.
• The New York Occasions’ “Uninsured Sufferers Rise Sharply, Hospitals Report, Citing Obamacare Cuts,” by Reed Abelson.
• Politico’s “Blanche Assures Anti-Abortion Supporters That Dobbs Will Be ‘Everlasting in Each Single State,’” by Alice Miranda Ollstein and Josh Gerstein.
• Underlying Circumstances’ “RFK Jr. on CNN: Truth-Checking the Measles and Autism Claims,” by Céline Gounder.

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