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No one wants to talk about Medicare policy

October 23, 2024

'Our policy is broken'

Medicare policy has been conspicuously absent from the 2024 presidential race. Health policy scholar Paul Ginsburg thinks this is because both Democrats and Republicans understand that the reforms needed in the Medicare system are not going to be popular.

"Our policy is broken," Ginsburg said in his conversation with First Opinion editor Torie Bosch on this week's podcast. "Our most important policy issues, the ones that most likely need to be solved, won't be talked about because it's unpleasant. That means the public is really losing out."

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