Amy Finkelstein is the co-author of a new book called We Got You Covered. She says Medicare for all would be much more basic than current Medicare coverage. A lot of medical debt in the United States is incurred by people who have health insurance, she says. Amy Finkelstein: Our commitment as a society is not to provide everyone with luxury high-end medical care such as your husband was fortunate to receive but to provide essential medical care.
Amy Finkelstein, Professor of Economics at MIT, discusses her book We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care.
Hosts: Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. Producer: Paul Brennan.
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