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Key Failures of the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare an Obstacle to Universal Health Care
This Is Hell
01 Jul 2015
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Key Failures of the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare an Obstacle to Universal Health Care

by our friends at This Is Hell Radio

Trudy Lieberman: “We are replacing a crisis of un-insurance with a crisis of under-insurance, and we’re going to find people with very high deductables and very high cost-sharing as the years go on, because we haven’t controlled the underlying cost of care.”

Journalist Trudy Lieberman breaks down the key failures of the Affordable Care Act – from a failure to control healthcare costs to serious gaps in coverage and funding – and explains why Obamacare is an obstacle, not a starting point, for universal healthcare.

Trudy wrote the Harper’s report on Obamacare, Wrong Prescription?

Trudy Lieberman is a health journalist and lead writer for the Columbia Journalism Review’s Second Opinion blog.

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