{"id":21957,"date":"2023-10-23T07:43:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21957"},"modified":"2023-10-23T07:43:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:43:29","slug":"fixing-americas-health-insurance-woes-is-actually-very-simple-says-leading-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21957","title":{"rendered":"Fixing America\u2019s health insurance woes is \u2018actually very simple,\u2019 says leading economist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Annalisa Merelli for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fixing the U.S. health care system can seem like a herculean task. But the solution is \u201cactually very simple,\u201d according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Amy Finkelstein.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/10\/23\/universal-health-care-amy-finkelstein\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/10\/23\/universal-health-care-amy-finkelstein\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"24\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 225px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Annalisa Merelli for STAT) Fixing the U.S. health care system can seem like a herculean task. But the solution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,200,40],"tags":[166,385,238,884,924],"class_list":["post-21957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-health-insurance","category-m4a-and-public-option-plans","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-healthcare-redesign","tag-universal-basic-health-care-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21957","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=21957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21958,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21957\/revisions\/21958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}