Host this is the chief washington correspondent for Kaiser Health news to talk about a theme that emerged from the debates. Medicare for all versus public option. How would you decide those things . Option. How would you decide those thinks . Guest medicare for all, which is what some democrats have been running on for years, would basically take the Medicare Program that is popular. It serves 60 million seniors and expanded to everyone. In practice, that is not what it would do. It would create a more Generous Program that might or might not be called medicare and extended to the entire population. Is idea of medicare for all the government would pay the Nation Health bills. A public option would create a Government Program like medicare, medicaid and make it more available. Now you have to meet qualifications to get into the Government Health provided programs. A public option would make it easier for people to get into government paid health care. For democrats debating of the issue
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Correspondent here to talk about the differences between medicare for all and the public option. Then at then at 9 00 a. M. , rachel quester discusses her podcast and news of the day. Host Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has asked the chairs of several committees to engage in bipartisan talks with the hopes of coming up with, quote, potential solutions to help protect our communities without infringing on americans constitutional rights. This action stemming from the shootings in dayton and el paso. And a tweet on the recent events, it was former president obama calling on americans to, quote, soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feed as climate of fear and hatred. This is the washington journal for august 6. We want to hear from you parents of children about how you are talking to them about the recent shootings and gun violence overall. What are you saying to them and how are they responding . Heres how you can let us know. If you live in
Extend it to the entire population. The idea of medicare for all is the government would pay all the Nations Health bills and everybody would have coverage. A public option would create a government type program like medicare, like medicaid and make it more available. Now you have to meet certain qualifications to get into any of the government provided health programs. The public option would make it easy for people to get into paid health care. Host for the democrats were debate on these issues why are they so fervently advocating . Whats wrong with the Current System to them . Guest everybody agrees, republicans do, the Current System is not working. People are paying too much. Most people have insurance but a substantial number of people still do not. A lot of people who do have insurance literally cant afford to use their interest because they have multithousand dollars deductibles. Everybody agrees we need to fix whats broken at how you do that. Democrats generally agree that eve
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