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How Can We Unite Universal Coverage and Personal Choice in Health Care?
How Can We Unite Universal Coverage and Personal Choice in Health Care?
Oct 30, 2025 7:53 PM

Our health care system is broken. So why can’t we agree on how to fix it? The main problem is that disagreements about health care reform tend to be caused by a difference in values. Conservatives value personal choice and efficiency while progressives value coverage and affordability, says AEI’s Henry Olsen. But what if we could reform the healthcare system so that it recognized all these values?

What if we could design a health care system from scratch, what would we build, and why? AEI has produced several materials to help Americans think about how to answer that question.

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