{"id":13486,"date":"2019-06-25T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T14:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2019-06-25T10:39:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T14:39:41","slug":"fuzzy-math-fuels-sanders-claim-that-cost-barriers-to-health-care-kill-30000-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13486","title":{"rendered":"Fuzzy Math Fuels Sanders\u2019 Claim That Cost Barriers To Health Care Kill 30,000 A Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedicare for All\u201d \u2014 or single-payer health care \u2014 is a flagship issue for Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. So when a conservative group launched an ad campaign claiming such a policy would drive up wait times for medical care, the 2020 candidate responded aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>His point: Some people may wait a bit for care under a new system. But under the current one, many people do not have access to affordable care and the results are sometimes dire.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Sanders\u2019 precision gave us pause.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/fuzzy-math-fuels-sanders-claim-that-cost-barriers-to-health-care-kill-30000-a-year\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=74013526&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9YB-UwHDLerL7vqf72iNPcSCUp07T8cwCtowE1Z2iRZbaOdoHAxSdYWPS9M8BM6mB_jyqH6ZTM8HO8SlCg8lQkmRT0YQ&amp;_hsmi=74013526\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News) \u201cMedicare for All\u201d \u2014 or single-payer health care \u2014 is a flagship issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,21,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-healthcare-issues","category-health-care-finance","category-m4a-and-public-option-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13487,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions\/13487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}