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In its anti-'Medicare for All' push, the health insurance industry pulls from an old playbook

  • Written by Burton St. John III, Professor of Public Relations, University of Colorado Boulder
If you're strangled by health care costs, are you really 'free'?jwblinn/Shutterstock.com

As a debate continues to rage within the Democratic Party over “Medicare for All,” the health insurance has quietly girded itself to fight the elimination of for-profit health care.

In the summer of 2018, trade groups representing hospitals,...

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