A single-payer system is when the government pays healthcare claims using taxes. Universal coverage means everyone has health insurance, either through the government, private insurance, or both. Some ...

The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn has written a new piece on health reform, recognising and then questioning what he calls the best argument against universal coverage--the risk that it would suppress ...

Whether health care reform incrementally builds on the existing U.S. system or introduces dramatically new features, many complex issues must be addressed. As Congress attempts this massive ...

A half-dozen states and the District of Columbia have health care insurance rates of over 95%, achieving near-universal coverage. Three researchers at the University of Pennsylvania — including ...

As Abdo Yazbeck and coauthors suggest (May 2020), financing health care through labor taxes could lead to greater inequality in access to health services in low- and low-middle-income countries. In ...

On Friday, oral health advocates across the globe got an early holiday gift from their longtime wish lists. They had been waiting their whole careers — for some STAT spoke with, up to nearly half a ...

The demise of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on March 24 was a humiliating defeat for both President Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan, both of whom had pledged the repeal and replacement of Obamacare ...

Conservatives and libertarians have criticized the IPAB “death panel” that Obamacare endows with the authority to make top-down decisions about Americans’ health care. They’ve discussed how mandates ...

Talk of universal coverage is in the air. To a person, the Democratic candidates jockeying to take on Donald Trump are pledging allegiance to this seemingly elusive goal. As Yogi Berra might have put ...