special election implications Related: Health care hot potato 1. Oklahoma will be getting a new insurance commissioner.
The contenders The Republicans: The Democrat: The commissioner who's leaving2. The odds that South Carolina will keep its current top insurance regulator have increased.
3. Cannabis is popular.
4. Single-payer health care and Medicare-for-all proposals could get more attention.
In July 2014, health issues sectionYou can count on Alexandria to fight for people-centered health care more than any other candidate, because she's the only candidate that doesn't accept money from pharmaceutical lobbyists or private insurance companies.
Extending single payer to the American public has rippling positive effects: people will take less time off work, have more money in their pocket, and other issues - like mass incarceration, homelessness, and more — will also be alleviated with an increase in the number of people getting the mental and physical health care they need.
At this point in the U.S., we've tried almost every other system of healthcare, and we know it doesn't work. The Affordable Care Act was a great step forward to insure the previously 'uninsurable,' but for many Americans, costs are still far too high. The prices of co-pays, premiums, and deductibles are skyrocketing. We're paying more for less every year. Improving Medicare and extending it to all Americans can fix these problems
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
