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The battle against COVID-19 has reinforced the inequities, cost anxieties and the inertia that has been a barrier to changing how health care works in the U.S.

Calls for a single-payer health system have become louder amid the growing crisis, with proponents arguing such a system would have provided better protection for the poor and vulnerable. 

But others urge caution. They point to countries in Europe with single-payer systems that appeared to be no better prepared than the U.S. 

MPR News host Kerri Miller spoke with a health economist and health policy researcher about what we’ve learned from COVID-19 and how it should inform future changes to our health care system.  

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Health care in the U.S. is expensive, uneven and often inaccessible for the people who need it most. All of those things were true before the pandemic, but will COVID-19 push the debate over health care policy to the forefront? 

How COVID-19 will change the health care policy debate

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