The Affordable Care Act versus Medicare for All

Laurence Seidman is Chaplin Tyler Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware. He received his BA from Harvard University and PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several articles on health insurance public policy including “Medicare for All: An Economist's Case” (Challenge, January–February 2013); “Responsible Health Insurance Revisited” (Inquiry, summer 2005); and “Prefunding Medicare without Individual Accounts” (Health Affairs, September–October 2000). His books include The Earned Income Tax Credit (with coauthor Saul Hoffman; 1990); The USA Tax: A Progressive Consumption Tax (1997); Funding Social Security (1999); and Public Finance (a textbook with a chapter on health insurance; 2009).