Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released a campaign video introducing his plan to implement a single payer health care system "to guarantee health care for all people."
Month: September 2017
Schumer and Pelosi to visit White House on Trump’s invitation
The fate of “dreamers” and the Affordable Care Act is set to top the agenda.
Medicare for All or State Control: Health Care Plans Go to Extremes
Republicans and Democrats lay out their visions of health care beyond the Affordable Care Act: a single-payer system or state government control.
Bernie Sanders, GOP proposing dueling health care overhauls
Sanders putting forth “Medicare-for-all” as some Senate Republicans set to try again to repeal and replace Obamacare
This is how Bernie Sanders wants to implement single-payer
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) Medicare for All bill would eliminate out-of-pocket costs and deductibles for any resident of the United States, as well as build on the health care services covered by the Affordable Care Act, according to an executive summary and outline of the bill provided to ThinkProgress.
Sanders, a longtime single-payer advocate, will hold a press conference on Wednesday afternoon to detail his policy ideas for transforming the current health care landscape.<...
The grassroots activists who paved the way for single-payer health care’s political moment
If you’re a Democratic party star who’s being talked about as a potential 2020 candidate for president, you probably recently announced your support for single-payer legislation.
Sen. Bernie Sanders will unveil his Medicare for All bill on Wednesday afternoon, flanked by high-profile co-sponsors including Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
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Senator wants to give Medicare access to…
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is working on legislation that would allow individuals and businesses to buy into Medicare. Sen. Murphy joins Morning Joe to discuss his plan and Bernie Sanders' plan.
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Sanders will introduce universal health care, backed by 15 Democrats
Republicans, bruised and exhausted by a failed campaign to repeal the Affordable Care Act, were giddy about the chance to attack Democrats and Sanders.
Top House Democrat distances himself from ‘single payer’ push
While a growing number of Senate Democrats with potential 2020 presidential ambitions are publicly embracing Senator Bernie Sanders's single-payer health care proposal, the number two House Democrat raised questions about the approach Tuesday, saying the "first objective" of House Democrats is fixing Obamacare.
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