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As part of our What Matters 2020 series on the critical trends that will outlive this moment, Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen discuss the soaring costs of the American health care system.

The Medicare for All debate is hiding the fact that health care costs keep going up

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Watch: As Medicare for All debate rages on, costs keep going up

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The U.S. faces a range of health care flashpoints — unaffordable drugs, opioids, vaping — as we debate whether to adopt universal care. For now, the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, but Republicans want to issue it a final death blow.

Watch: As Medicare for All debate rages on, costs keep going up

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