Should the U.S. Have a Public Health Insurance Plan?
July 17, 2025
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as posted by the channelYale’s Jacob Hacker and Sesame’s David Goldhill debate a government-run health insurance plan.
Yale’s Jacob Hacker and Sesame’s David Goldhill debate a government-run health insurance plan.
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Jacob Hacker and David Goldhill debate the resolution: "The government should offer to all Americans a health insurance plan that would compete with private insurance plans."
Jacob Hacker is arguing for the affirmative. He's a professor of political science at Yale University and co-directs the Ludwig Program in Public Sector Leadership at Yale Law School. He is a resident fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
For the negative is David Goldhill, CEO and co-founder of Sesame, an online marketplace for discounted health services. He is also author of Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is Wrong.
The debate is moderated by Soho Forum director Gene Epstein.
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