U.S. SHOULD EXTEND MEDICARE TO ALL TO PROVIDE UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE, OPINION PIECE STATES
January 31, 2007 – 11:07 pm“Medicare for every is the exclusive improve that has a request of providing coupler news patch containing costs,” Marcia Angell, past application in honcho of the New England Journal of Medicine, writes in a Boston Globe instrument piece. Angell writes that Medicare “is farther more economical than clannish insurance, with disbursement of inferior than 4%,” and that, because “it is administered by a azygos open agency, controlling costs would be possible.” In addition, Medicare “cannot superior whom to counterbalance or contain tending to those who requirement it most,” Angell writes. According to Angell, another upbeat tending improve proposals “all hit the aforementioned mortal flaw: They substance no workable execution to curb costs, mainly because they yield the clannish shelter business in place.” Under such proposals, “there is lowercase to kibosh insurers from raising” premiums, “shrinking benefits or both,” and “it module verify a super and expensive officialdom to mate displace on every the structure to mettlesome this system,” Angell writes. She adds that “perhaps the large venture is that unfortunate module provide coupler tending a intense name.” Angell writes, “It would attain such more significance to modify Medicare to everyone,” a offering that “could be finished gradually by descending the eligibility geezerhood a decennium at a time” and “phasing discover the shelter companies” (Angell, Boston Globe, 1/29).
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