The economic case for universal health care (with CA Assemblymember Ash Kalra)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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Is This a Government Take Over of Health Care?
We're getting worse health outcomes than the rest of the world. Black life expectancy went down two point seven years. Tat thenolive expectancy went down one point nine years. Because they have pre pre existing conditions that make them more vulnerable. And so what we would have with cow care is simplicity. That right now, 20% of oradministrative costs, 20 % of health care is administrative costs. So instead of having well over a hundred potential payers, which makes a multi pair system so prohibitively expensive and complicated, you just have one pair.
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