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While we wait for vaccines to stem the tide of the Covid onslaught, Clay brings on author and health care expert Jonathan Cohn to take a look at the state of healthcare in our country.\xa0 Why aren\u2019t all of us covered in the pandemic era? And isn\u2019t there an incentive for business to turn over employee coverage to the government?\xa0 The devil is in the details, but many recent plans have the potential to take us past the goal line of universal coverage-- something that could have saved thousands of lives during COVID.\xa0 Will the current Congress and President Biden make any bold moves\xa0 to get us to it?\xa0 Or must we wait for legislators to overcome their historic inertia (not to mention interest groups) and deliver change that could benefit all Americans for decades to come?\n
\n\nGuest:\nJonathan Cohn\n\nJonathan Cohn is a Senior National Correspondent at HuffPost who writes about politics and policy with a focus on social welfare. Jonathan worked previously at the New Republic and American Prospect, and has written for the Atlantic, New York Times Magazine, and Self. His journalism has won awards from the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the Association of Health Care Journalists, World Hunger Year, and the National Women's Political Caucus.\xa0\n
\n\nHe is the author of the 2007 book Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis and, coming from St. Martin's Press in February 2021, The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage.\n
\n\nGet more from Jonathan Cohn with:\n\nTwitter | @HuffPost |Author of \u201cThe Ten Year War\u201d | And other books!\xa0\n
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