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Universal coverage, single-payer, 'Medicare for All': What does it all mean for you?

  • Written by Simon F. Haeder, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Pennsylvania State University
Bill Clinton's 1993 health care plan called for universal coverage. It was dead by 1994, but the political wrangling it started over health care lives on. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo

Collectively, health care is our biggest industry. And, health care has long been one of the most politically contested issues. Partisan wrangling over health reform...

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