Opinion: Universal health care is more myth than reality. Medicare for all is a decent step toward it
The U.S. needs a stronger and more equitable health care system. @SenWarren has a plausible plan for creating one.
Millions of Americans live with health care coverage that is either incredibly expensive or poor to nonexistent. It’s no surprise, then, that the push is on throughout the country for some form of universal health care, such as the Medicare for All plan promoted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Is the idea of a universal health care system that’s paid for and run by the government and has only trivial out-of-pocket costs truly plausible?
I’ve been following health care for some 35 years. So just out of curiosity, I decided to look at European countries with universal health care. They’ve appeared to be the utopian goal
