{"id":871865,"date":"2026-10-05T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871865\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:12:09","slug":"opinion-medicare-for-all-is-back-the-hard-questions-remain-unanswered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871865\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Medicare-for-all is back. The hard questions remain unanswered."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"A4SUKTYRQZCPXGKB5XVQCFSLOI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Elisabeth Rosenthal is a senior contributing editor at KFF Health News and author of \u201cAn American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RYBACZJOB5ARNOHEVEKK2D2PYI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">As Americans grow increasingly frustrated with their health care system, a reform proposal that has long been kicked around on the Democratic periphery is showing up in debates and on political platforms: Medicare-for-all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elisabeth Rosenthal is a senior contributing editor at KFF Health News and author of \u201cAn American Sickness: How&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-871865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}