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A collaboration event between the UNMUTED & Pepper NYC. Open bar included in ticket.
Millions of Americans still live one accident, one diagnosis, or one bad month away from medical debt, skipped care, or a bill that changes the rest of their life. In 2024, about 27.2 million people (8.2%) were uninsured, with adults 18-64 far more likely to be uninsured than seniors.
Universal healthcare sounds like the obvious fix. The problem is the bill. US healthcare spending hit $5.3 trillion in 2024. Medicare alone was about $1.1 trillion that year. Medicare for All style proposals often shift costs onto the federal government on a massive scale, with major studies estimating tens of trillions in additional federal spending over a decade depending on assumptions about provider payment rates, utilization, & benefits. The core tension is not whether people deserve care. The tension is who pays, what gets funded, what gets rationed, & what we are willing to trade off.
Debating tonight:
Pro universal healthcare: Jonathan Halvorson (Sachs Policy Group), a healthcare policy consultant focused on coverage markets & payment policy, with experience including work as a New York State health plan regulator & health policy writing.
Against universal healthcare: Maitreyee Joshi (Avon Health), Founder & CEO building an AI-native EMR & writing/speaking publicly on health system incentives & how healthcare actually runs inside clinics & health IT.
Format
5-minute opening statements each (10 minutes total)
Moderator-led questioning across 3 areas (10-15 minutes)
Audience Q&A (15-20 minutes)
Closing statement from each speaker
Then the UNMUTED part
10-minute break
20-25 minutes of small-group breakout discussion
10 minutes of open mic
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