The Transformation of American Health Insurance: On the Path to Medicare for All

American health insurance is facing significant challenges, with employer-sponsored insurance becoming increasingly expensive and Medicare for All emerging as the sole source of health insurance over the next two decades. Troyen A. Brennan argues that Medicare for All could act as a single-payer program or become a government-regulated program of competing health plans, depending on how private insurers adapt and behave. This evolution is important to employers, health insurance executives, government officials, and health care providers, as well as all Americans, as they face an inscrutable health insurance system and wonder what the future might hold for them regarding affordable coverage.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 24 September 2024
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

American health insurance faces significant challenges in the coming years, with employer-sponsored insurance becoming increasingly expensive and Medicare for All emerging as the sole source of health insurance over the next two decades. Troyen A. Brennan, a health care and academic leader with thirty years of experience, argues that Medicare for All could act as a single-payer program or become a government-regulated program of competing health plans, depending on how private insurers adapt and behave in today's changing health policy environment. This critical evolution in the system of financing health care is important to employers, health insurance executives, government officials, and health care providers who are grappling with difficult strategic choices. It is also important to all Americans as they face an inscrutable health insurance system and wonder what the future might hold for them regarding affordable coverage.

Weight: 704g
Dimension: 162 x 237 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781421449098