Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders explains why he thinks his new Medicare for All health care bill is more than a pipe dream.
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Month: September 2017
Repealing or Replacing ACA Would Result in More Uninsured Veterans and Stress on VA Health System
Recent congressional proposals to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of uninsured nonelderly veterans and further increase demand for VA health care. The effects would vary across states, but the largest impacts would be felt in states that expanded Medicaid.
How Might Veterans and the VA Health System Be Affected by Repeal of the Affordable Care Act?
The American Health Care Act would increase uninsurance among veterans and demand for Department of Veterans Affairs care by a greater margin than simply returning to pre-Affordable Care Act levels of coverage.
Liberal, conservative lawmakers offer opposing U.S. healthcare ideas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators unveiled two opposing visions of a healthcare system in the United States on Wednesday - leading liberals advocating government insurance for all and several Republicans proposing an eleventh-hour repeal of Obamacare to replace it with programs run by the states.
Bernie Sanders rolls out Medicare-for-All plan
Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled his Medicare-for-All bill Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol
Public Health: How the Bernie Sanders Plan Would Both Beef Up and Slim Down Medicare
The Medicare-for-all plan would mean not just an expansion but a redefinition of the program.
Medicare for all
After Republicans' Obamacare repeal crashed, Democrats aim for government-run health insurance
The census data has bad news for Black and Latinx Americans
New Census Bureau data shows an increasingly optimistic picture for white Americans — but far less so for Americans of color, many of whom still face stark income disparities.
Released Tuesday, the numbers appear to show good news across the board in several key areas. Median household income in the United States in 2016 was $59,039 — a more than three percent rise from 2015 and the highest ever recorded. Poverty also saw a dip, as did the number of people without health...
How Bernie Sanders would fund his Medicare for All plan
On Wednesday afternoon on the second floor of the Hart Senate Office Building, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) officially unveiled his much-hyped Medicare for All plan. The senator was flanked by his 16 co-sponsors, many of them rising stars in the Democratic party and nearly every one of them talked about as a potential presidential candidate in 2020.
The basic idea of the plan is this: Over the course of four years, the state would expand eligibility for Medicare until every resident o...