Sanders reintroduces Medicare for All bill

[Politruk]

Bernie Sanders introduces Medicare for All legislation as GOP prepares fiscal overhaul

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) on Tuesday announced that they and House colleagues would introduce Medicare for All legislation, marking the fifth time Sanders has put forward legislation to have the federal government pay for health services and ban private insurance.

In an editorial published in the Guardian on Tuesday, Sanders framed the bill’s reintroduction in terms of plans to reduce Medicaid spending through the budget reconciliation process. In the piece, Sanders said the reconciliation bill will “throw millions of Americans off the healthcare they have,” but added that Democrats can’t solely play defense.

“Obviously, we must defeat that terrible legislation,” said Sanders, referencing the reconciliation bill. “But we must do much more. We cannot simply defend the status quo in healthcare.”

 

[Politruk]

Medicare for All, Says Sanders, Would Show American People 'Government Is Listening to Them'

"The goal of the current administration and their billionaire buddies is to pile on endless cuts," said one nurse and union leader. "Even on our hardest days, we won't stop fighting for Medicare for All."​

On Tuesday, Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Debbie Dingell of Michigan reintroduced the Medicare for All Act, re-upping the legislative quest to enact a single-payer healthcare system even as the bill faces little chance of advancing in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives or Senate.
Hundreds of nurses, healthcare providers, and workers from across the country joined the lawmakers for a press conference focused on the bill's reintroduction in front of the Capitol on Tuesday.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Countries with socialized medicine spend considerably less per capita on health care than we do. They have lower rates of infant mortality and higher life expectancies.

 

[Politruk]

Per capita health care costs in the U.S. are twice what they are in Canada, and that is not because American health care is twice as good. The extra dollar on the dollar goes to the health-insurance companies, who contribute nothing at all to the process that the government cannot do better. If you do health-care reform and the insurance companies are still in business, that is how you know you have not done it right.

Michael Moore got it right: When considering health-care reform, the insurance companies are the enemy, and should not have a place at the table.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

File under DOA

 

[MajorRewrite]

File under DOA

Because MAGAs don’t want to cut healthcare costs in half.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Because MAGAs don’t want to cut healthcare costs in half.

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They want to cut healthcare for all but Christian white men, "as teh founding fathers intended".

 

[Politruk]

File under DOA

File under "Dracula." Medicare for All will be killed repeatedly, but it will keep coming back.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Medicare is so popular many doctors refuse medicare patients. Lol.

 

[Rightguide]

Bernie Sanders introduces Medicare for All legislation as GOP prepares fiscal overhaul

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) on Tuesday announced that they and House colleagues would introduce Medicare for All legislation, marking the fifth time Sanders has put forward legislation to have the federal government pay for health services and ban private insurance.

In an editorial published in the Guardian on Tuesday, Sanders framed the bill’s reintroduction in terms of plans to reduce Medicaid spending through the budget reconciliation process. In the piece, Sanders said the reconciliation bill will “throw millions of Americans off the healthcare they have,” but added that Democrats can’t solely play defense.

“Obviously, we must defeat that terrible legislation,” said Sanders, referencing the reconciliation bill. “But we must do much more. We cannot simply defend the status quo in healthcare.”

Bernie is a relic of a failed ideology, an aging socialist still peddling the same stale class warfare slogans that history has long since discredited. Today’s Democrats offer little more than identity politics, divisive rhetoric, and a platform increasingly hostile to American values and interests.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Medicare is so popular many doctors refuse medicare patients. Lol.

Many doctors refuse to take UHC private insurance as well, even though it is enormously popular as a health insurance company for large corporations for much the same reason: lower payouts to doctors.

 

[Politruk]

Bernie is a relic of a failed ideology

Medicare for All ain't. All the other industrialized democracies use something similar, and none is going to drop it in your lifetime.

 

[Politruk]

still peddling the same stale class warfare slogans that history has long since discredited. Today’s Democrats offer little more than identity politics

Which is not the same as class politics, and the difference matters. If the Dems drop identity politics, and culture-war politics in general, and become class warriors once again, they will win and win and win. Medicare for All is a good start.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Medicare is so popular many doctors refuse medicare patients. Lol.

MAGAs don’t want to cut healthcare costs in half.

 

[Politruk]

and a platform increasingly hostile to American values and interests.

Nothing Bernie is saying on the Fight Oligarchy tour fits that description.

Nothing in the Dems' 2024 platform fits it either.

 

[Saint_Ann]

MAGAs don’t want to cut healthcare costs in half.

They said that, did they? It won't matter what coverage you have when there aren't any doctors.

 

[Rightguide]

Nothing Bernie is saying on the Fight Oligarchy tour fits that description.

Nothing in the Dems' 2024 platform fits it either.

Nobody gives a shit about Bernie's socialist ideas. We're moving into a new era.

 

[Politruk]

Nobody gives a shit about Bernie's socialist ideas. We're moving into a new era.

What "new era"? Supply-side economics are more thoroughly discredited than Stalinism, and what else has the GOP to offer?

And it is a lie to say "nobody gives a shit." Bernie is getting crowds in the tens of thousands -- in red states.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Many doctors refuse to take UHC private insurance as well, even though it is enormously popular as a health insurance company for large corporations for much the same reason: lower payouts to doctors.

Your new robotic doctor will complain much less.

 

[Chernosoth]

Michael Moore got it right: When considering health-care reform, the insurance companies are the enemy, and should not have a place at the table.

They will stay while most of the nation walks away to find other solutions, such as paying cash to doctors directly for services. The insurance racket is slicing a shrinking pie.

 

[Rightguide]

Medicare for All ain't. All the other industrialized democracies use something similar, and none is going to drop it in your lifetime.

We have no interest in the failed policies of so-called "European democracies," places where government is by committee, for committees, and filtered through layers of unelected bureaucracy. The people vote, but Brussels decides.

 

[Rightguide]

Nothing Bernie is saying on the Fight Oligarchy tour fits that description.

Nothing in the Dems' 2024 platform fits it either.

What have the Democrats done in the last 100 days except oppose the results of the election? They are political failures who refuse to accept reality. America is not interested in what they have to offer.

 

[Politruk]

What have the Democrats done in the last 100 days except oppose the results of the election? They are political failures who refuse to accept reality. America is not interested in what they have to offer.

Doesn't matter. The Pubs are proving themselves so much worse that the midterms will be a blue tsunami.

Of course, the Dems are going to have to move a whole lot further to the left economically before they're fit to actually do anything better than resisting Trump. But resisting Trump matters, and is worth a lot of effort.

 

[Politruk]

We have no interest in the failed policies of so-called "European democracies," places where government is by committee, for committees, and filtered through layers of unelected bureaucracy. The people vote, but Brussels decides.

Doesn't matter. Their health-care systems produce better results than ours. It is not the American Way to value results above everything else?

 

[MajorRewrite]

What have the Democrats done in the last 100 days except oppose the results of the election? They are political failures who refuse to accept reality. America is not interested in what they have to offer.

MAGAs don’t want to cut healthcare costs in half.