More than half of seriously ill Medicare enrollees face financial hardships with medical bills, with prescription drug costs the leading problem, according to a study published this week. The study in the journal Health Affairs comes as legislation to curb ...

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Joe Biden’s campaign is not anchored in a big policy idea like Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All. He is not proposing transformative change like Elizabeth Warren. Instead, Biden’s call to voters is a more visceral one, casting the 2020 race ...

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Democratic presidential candidates are split over eliminating employer-provided health insurance under “Medicare for All.” The risk is that history has shown voters are wary of disruptions to job-based insurance, the mainstay of coverage for Americans over three generations. Those divisions ...

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The signature domestic proposal by the leading progressive candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination came under withering attack from moderates in a debate that laid bare the struggle between a call for revolutionary policies and a desperate desire to defeat ...

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When Bernie Sanders wanted to preview a speech about his signature health care plan, “Medicare for All,” he did not opt for a traditional interview. Instead, he made an appearance on “The 99,” his Democratic presidential campaign’s in-house livestreamed show, ...

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Bernie Sanders is poised to hit back at critics who have derided his signature “Medicare for All” proposal as a dramatic and risky overhaul to the health care system. Sanders delivered  a speech at George Washington University confronting critics of ...

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