The United States has the highest health spending of any developed country at 17.1% of its GDP, a rate nearly twice that of Italy. But the U.S. healthcare reform ideas are too single-minded. rob_cyran
The first debate involving Democratic candidates for the U.S. presidency was held on June 26. When a moderator asked candidates to raise their hands if they “would abolish their private health insurance in favor of a government run plan,” Senator Elizabeth Warren and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did so. Several of the 10 candidates have previously supported the idea of Medicare for all, referring to the current federal program for older Americans.
Under a Medicare-for-all bill written by Senator Bernie Sanders, all Americans would be moved under government health plans and private insurance would be precluded from covering most essential care. Sanders will appear in the second debate on June 27. The United States is the only developed nation without universal health coverage. In 2017, the government along with private entities and citizens spent 17.2% of GDP on healthcare, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The average expenditure across 36 OECD member nations was 8.8% of GDP.
The Commonwealth Fund in April published a briefing on the different models for universal healthcare that exist in other countries. Calling them all “single-payer” systems, the fund said, can be misleading as “considerable differences” exist between them.
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