Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Clinton On Sanders' Single-Payer Plan: 'In Theory' Isn't Enough
[Hillary] Clinton, who has lost much of her lead to [Sen. Bernie] Sanders in Iowa and national polls, has also recently tried to put Sanders on defense when it comes to healthcare. Here on Thursday, she suggested that his proposal for a single-payer, "Medicare-for-All" system was unrealistic. (Fraser-Chanpong, 1/21)
Health care has emerged as one of the flash points in the Democratic presidential race. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been a longtime supporter of a concept he calls 鈥淢edicare for All,鈥� a health system that falls under the heading of 鈥渟ingle-payer.鈥� Some of the details of Sanders鈥� plan are still to be released. But his proposal has renewed questions about what a single-payer health care system is and how it works. Here are some quick answers. (Rovner 1/22)
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' health care plan dangles the prospect of "Medicare for all." But it's not the same as Medicare. [Here's] a closer look. (1/21)
In other 2016 news, abortion and reproductive health care rights are hot button topics in the battleground state of Colorado聽鈥�
Colorado Republicans could be forgiven for thinking that several years of fiery political contests over abortion and reproductive rights were behind them. Then, last year a pregnant woman close to giving birth was gruesomely attacked with a knife, and a few months later an anti-abortion zealot opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, killing three. Think those cases won鈥檛 affect the 2016 races? Not a chance. (Wyatt, 1/22)