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The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance for All Americans (MIT Press) by Kotlikoff, Laurence J. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance for All Americans (MIT Press) about?
A simple, straightforward, and foolproof proposal for universal health insurance from a noted economist. The shocking statistic is that forty-seven million Americans have no health insurance. When uninsured Americans go to the emergency room for treatment, however, they do receive care, and a bill. Many hospitals now require uninsured patients to put their treatment on a credit card which can saddle a low-income household with unpayably high balances that can lead to personal bankruptcy. Why don't these people just buy health insurance? Because the cost of coverage that doesn't come through an employer is more than many low- and middle-income households make in a year. Meanwhile, rising healthcare costs for employees are driving many businesses under. As for government-supplied health care, ever higher costs and added benefits (for example, Part D, Medicare's new prescription drug coverage) make both Medicare and Medicaid impossible to sustain fiscally; benefits grow faster than the national per-capita income. It's obvious the system is broken. What can we do? In The Healthcare Fix , economist Laurence Kotlikoff proposes a simple, straightforward approach to the problem that would
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- Author
- Kotlikoff, Laurence J.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262263450
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Medical, Health & Fitness
- Rating
- 3.2 / 5 (29 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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