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"Healthcare reform – and Medicare in particular – has been a relentless political hot button in Washington and in the media lately. One solution often explored is to revert to a single-payer system. There have been a number of proposals from various sources, including Senator Bernie Sanders. Recently, another proposal was announced by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal research group based in D.C. The CAP program would be called Medicare Extra.\nSingle-payer national health insurance would be structured with one agency that would organize all healthcare financing, meaning it would collect fees and pay for costs. The individual delivery of healthcare services would remain in the private sector.\nCAP’s Medicare Extra\nCAP’s motivation for the proposal is to reduce existing program costs and deductibles, which the group believes are way too high, and to make healthcare coverage available to all. Medicare Extra would not only control escalating costs, it would guarantee coverage to every American. The proposal notes that, at present, there are 28.8 million Americans who are uninsured and another 41 million who are underinsured.\n........"
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