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Getting the health care debate right

ANDREW STARK

ONE question lies at the core of the ongoing debate over how to configure public health insurance for non-elderly Americans. It is a question that arises every time legislators consider budgets for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The same question looms whenever a state that sponsors its own public insurance program has to wrestle with financing issues. 

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