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The biggest health care issues of the 2020 election

The biggest health care issues of the 2020 election

FromThe Brookings Cafeteria


The biggest health care issues of the 2020 election

FromThe Brookings Cafeteria

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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Nov 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Polls show that health care is one of the top issues American voters care about, but ideas about controlling costs and expanding coverage are divided along partisan lines. This episode features a deep dive into health care policy and what Democratic presidential candidates and Republican Party leaders are offering as their solutions. Guests are two of Brookings’s top health policy experts: is a fellow in the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health policy and, among her many roles in public service, served in the White House as a senior policy advisor for health. is also a fellow with the Schaeffer Initiative and was previously chief economist of the Council of Economic Advisers in the White House, where he oversaw the council’s work on health care policy. Both Young and Fiedler have contributed a few explainer pieces on health policy as part of the here at Brookings. Also, meet , a new David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy program at Brookings. Subscribe to Brookings podcasts  or , send feedback email to , and follow us and tweet us at  on Twitter. The Brookings Cafeteria is part of the .
Released:
Nov 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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Host Fred Dews interviews experts from the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization (think tank) based in Washington, D.C., about their research and ideas on solutions to the most pressing public policy challenges facing the nation and the world.