Bernie Sanders’ single-payer health care plan is bound to be expensive and politically impossible. A simple expansion of Medicare offers a cheaper and more passable path to universal care.
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International comparisons show that the UK’s National Health Service outperforms other countries’ health systems, including the US.
For the first time in 15 years, as premiums and complaints rise, the proportion of the population with private health insurance is declining.
Tired of escalating health care costs, health care policymakers in Colorado have put a vote for universal coverage on the ballot in that state. Could the other states learn anything from it?
Across the continent, citizens’ perceptions of health care show several barriers to access and better health for all.
Despite the criticism, the sustainable development goal for health presents an opportunity to approach health holistically.
The South African government’s plan to provide universal access to health care seems to be slipping off its priority list.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Senior postdoctoral research fellow, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
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Director of Research, Centre for Democratic Development Ghana
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Yunus Chair and Distinguished Professor of Health Economics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Afrobarometer Project Manager for Francophone West Africa, based at the Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), African School of Economics
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Programme Manager, Centre for Rural Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Joint Director, Research and Policy, Public Health Foundation of India
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Senior Research Officer and the Afrobarometer Project Manager for Anglophone West Africa, Centre for Democratic Development Ghana
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Head, Population Health Unit, KEMRI, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Assistant Professor, Colorado State University
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Director Rural Health Advocacy Project, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science