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Opinion: Super Tuesday results suggest that Americans ‘aren’t looking for big structural changes’ in health care

Americans may not agree on one approach to health reform, but the positions of some political leaders suggest that we are hungry for a big change in health care. Tuesday's…
A voter casts a ballot in Richmond, Virginia, on Super Tuesday 2020.

Voters on Tuesday sent several messages, including a key one about health care.

Big ideas on health reform have dominated the Democratic primaries and been the focus of Congressional efforts. A threatened to uproot the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and turn Medicaid into lump-sum payments to states, disrupting insurance coverage for millions. would insure nearly everyone but abolish private health insurance. Many states and the Trump administration are that would overturn the entire ACA, slashing public funding, while other states and that could increase public funding.

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