This week Americans are voting for thousands of candidates, but one issue has dominated almost everybody’s campaign: affordability. And one thing that millions of Americans have struggled to afford for decades is healthcare. This political moment just might be a window of opportunity to make high quality, affordable, universal healthcare a reality in America. The latest season of “The Big Dig” podcast looks at how Mitt Romney and Ted Kennedy made Romneycare happen in Massachusetts in the early 2000s – prefiguring Obamacare. The Peabody Award-winning host of “The Big Dig,” Ian Coss, joins Chris to imagine a future where Congress can achieve policy-driven change that has long been standard internationally. “Where is the laboratory right now for the next time that actual national health reform is possible?” asked Coss. “ I find myself thinking about, where is the energy? Where is that alignment happening right now?”
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