'Medicare for All' gets boost from first congressional hearing
Source: The Hill
Progressive Democrats scored a victory of sorts Tuesday when Congress held its first hearing on Medicare for All, the lefts ambitious proposal to reshape the American health care system.
Supporters of the legislation had been requesting a hearing for months, and the first public discussion was held in the House, albeit in the nontraditional setting of the Rules Committee, whose jurisdiction is not specific to health care.
The small venue accommodated only a few dozen spectators, and just four reporters, for a meeting that was largely devoid of the fireworks or partisan bickering that often accompany debates about health care.
Instead, members of both parties mostly asked economists and policy experts about how the proposal would work and what it would cost.
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cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)that way the Repugnants will hesitate cutting their own throats in the future should they try to undo it.
BigmanPigman
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(41,171 posts)for Medicare 4 All.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)He can no longer talk and testified using a text-to-speech device. Very powerful indeed.