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How many times did California lawmakers introduce a universal health care bill?
California lawmakers have once again introduced a universal health
care bill after unsuccessful attempts in the past.
The bill’s latest iteration, formally known as AB 2200, would
establish the ...
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Why doesn't liberal California just implement Universal Healthcare on its own?
California has an overwhelming left-leaning majority that probably loves the idea of universal healthcare. But even if you don't want to take the whole of California (which still has a large ...
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What became of Obamacare’s grandfather fix?
While marketing the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama often said “If you like it, you can keep it.”, i.e. you would be able to keep your existing health insurance rather than having ...
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Are there countries where being non-vaccinated disqualifies you from "standard" health insurance coverage (for that particular disease)?
Reading the latest news on Greece imposing fines on the non-vaccinated:
"It's not a punishment," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told his cabinet in a televised meeting. "I ...
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Healthcare Insurance (Income & “Silver” Plans) [closed]
I’m a young college student looking to start purchasing health insurance here in the United States this year. I’m aware that open enrollment for 2021 starts tomorrow (November 1, 2020) and fully ...
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Why hasn't competition between health insurance providers led to lower prices for consumers?
In the US, a common argument I've seen against a universal healthcare system is that removing the ability of private health insurance companies to compete will give rise to a natural monopoly in the ...
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Which countries with single payer healthcare ban duplicative coverage?
A single payer healthcare system is a system where all citizens have government health insurance. Now most countries with single payer healthcare allow people to buy supplemental private insurance, ...
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How and why would (Bernie Sanders’) Medicare for All abolish private health insurance in the US?
Can the federal government really ban private health insurance companies from operating? It seems strange that the federal government would be able to outlaw contracts between two private parties ...
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Is there any credible attempt to analyze how cost savings from standardizing healthcare could compensate for extending it to universal system?
A big democratic talking point lately have been switching to a more universal health care system, which republicans obviously are opposed to due to the increased cost.
However, It's well known that ...
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How many countries have single-payer healthcare with 0 copays and 0 deductibles?
Many 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates in the United States, including Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Andrew Yang, support a "Medicare for All" single payer healthcare system with zero ...
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Why do Americans (US) want to keep their employee-based healthcare insurance?
The generalized argument against some sort of Medicare for All (M4A) is that Americans really like the employer based health insurance (EBHI). That approximately 150 million workers are enrolled in ...
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What are the (key) limits of coverage of Medicare for All?
I don't live in the US, but rather in a country where there's a state mandated, single-(state)-payer universal health insurance - with additional layers of coverage for additional insurance fee ...
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What is the role of private healthcare insurance industry in Medicaid?
In light of the concept of abolishing the private healthcare insurance industry advocated by some 2020 presidential candidates, one would expect that to impact the administration of Medicaid.
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Are Medicare approved amounts significantly different than Commercial insurance approved amounts
In context: During the 1st Democratic candidates debate 6/26/19, it was stated that
If you go to every hospital in this country and you ask them one question, which is how would it have been for ...
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