Today's @bopinion is about the simple, quick, easy, reliable, low-risk way to fix our entire messed-up health care system overnight:

Lower the Medicare coverage age to 0.

That's it! That's all we really have to do! We know it will work! https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-13/universal-medicare-not-medicare-for-all-is-the-best-health-fix

I hate to tout silver-bullet solutions to hard and complex problems, but Universal Medicare is as close to a silver bullet solution as we're going to find.

This analysis says that taxes would have to be raised by $246 billion a year to pay for this. That's very doable with a VAT. And because companies will save money by not having to pay premiums for private insurance, the whole nation comes out ahead! https://truthout.org/articles/heres-how-the-us-could-afford-medicare-for-all/