you are on with charles nelson and noam levey. please go ahead. caller: i have not heard this mentioned, but i dare suggest universal health care, funded the same way the united states funds our military. meaning, i pay taxes and i have .he full coverage why can't i just pay taxes and justdoctors and hospitals make it part of the tax system? instead of what seems to be all battling in the weeds about health care coverage and different separates -- different sectors of society having health care based on who you are married to, based on who you on maybe withd these health exchanges. some portions of the country, including in michigan's upper peninsula, the health-care exchanges do not work well because there are not enough health care providers and there is not enough competition. levey?r. the american health-care system is the most complicated on the planet. we do not have one system, we have multiple systems. the point earlier about the division of coverage in this country is correct. there is a government system for some people, there is an empl

. >> noam levey, you covered the healthcare beach.e medicaid and medicare numbers shifted? >> well as charles mentioned, there've been changes in the way the states run their medicaid programs. medicaid is -- for those of the viewers who don't know -- it's a program that is jointly funded by the federal government and by state government. and so, each state runs its own medicaid program. and so, historically states have had a lot of latitude in designating how many of their residents qualify for the program. in some states historically have been quite generous in providing a government safety net program for people making as much as twice the federal poverty level in some cases including children's health insurance programs. some states haven't expanded that program over the years. poverty is a persistent problem so it's grown. at the main thing that's driving up now and continues to drive it as the eligibility. i mean, as public policymakers have grappled with a large and stubbornly high number of people who don't have health insuran

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