Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders's Medicare-for-all plan, explained (from Vox )
The Vermont Senators plan has lots of details about what single-payer would cover. It has less information on how to pay for it.
By Sarah Kliffsarah@vox.com Apr 10, 2019, 11:00am EDT
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will reintroduce his plan Wednesday morning to transition the United States to a single-payer health care system, one where a single government-run plan provides insurance coverage to all Americans.
The Sanders plan envisions a future in which all Americans have health coverage and pay nothing out of pocket when they visit the doctor. His plan, the Medicare for All Act, describes a benefit package that is more generous than what other single-payer countries, like Canada, currently offer their residents and includes new income taxes on both employees and employers.
Sanders is reintroducing his plan at a moment when both American voters and Democratic legislators are increasingly backing a government-run health care system. Sanders will introduce his bill today with 14 cosponsors including presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
The Sanders plan goes into great detail about the type of coverage Americans would receive. But it provides significantly less detail about how it would finance such a generous health care system. Instead, Sanders released a five-page paper that included a list of financing options, such as a new tax on extreme wealth.
More at: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/10/18304448/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueFlorida
(1,532 posts)"It's a disaster."
More "free stuff" with no way to pay for it and it will have a massive resistance from people who have employer/union provided plans that they are extremely happy with.
The alternative is much preferred -- "Medicare for those who want it."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)A HUGE part of the cost of administering our current Medicare system now is borne by "private insurance" companies, and is handled directly by private insurance companies. It would be virtually impossible to institute any government healthcare insurance system (yes, it's healthcare INSURANCE, not "healthcare" ) without the assistance of the private insurance companies. It's naive to think that a viable system can be put in place with them.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden