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Medicare For All
2020 presidential election
2/10/2019
Joe Biden May Be the Last Hurrah for Moderate Democrats Barring a Biden nomination, the time seems ripe for progressives to take the wheel in the Democratic Party, and for moderates to fall in line.
medicare for all
2/1/2019
Some Democrats Who Ran on Medicare for All Are Backing Away From It Now The progressive proposal was a rallying cry during midterms, but some Democrats now appear to be hedging their bets.
Kamala Harris Didn’t Just Flip-Flop on Medicare for All But big promises about legislation Joe Manchin will never vote for mean less than pledges to aggressively exercise Executive authority.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Critique of Fact-Checking Is Valid The congresswoman downplays facts that are inconvenient to her ideology. So do her fact-checkers.
NYC Care Is Coming, and So Is the Health-Care Reform Wave Bill de Blasio’s universal health-care proposal is part of a trend.
2020 elections
12/27/2018
In the Trump Era, Who Needs Moderates Anyway? Research shows running to the center didn’t help candidates in 2018. That could convince progressives that moderates have outlived their usefulness.
Even Old Folks Trended Democratic in 2018 The Democratic future depends on young and minority voters and college-educated women. But many seniors vote, and more of them are voting Democratic.
For First Act in Power, Dems Consider Making Their Own Agenda Impossible to Pass Pelosi is plans to create a super-majority requirement for raising taxes on the middle class, a rule that could make single-payer impossible to pass.
What Medicare for All’s Sky-High Poll Numbers Really Prove Voters aren’t necessarily sold on single-payer. But a supermajority of Americans (and a slim majority of GOPers) do want more government health care.
the national interest
9/14/2018
Republican Extremism Is Turning Democrats Left on Health Care If conservatives are going to destroy market-based health reform, they can’t complain when Democrats turn to government-based plans.
medicare for all
9/7/2018
GOP’s Latest Mediscare Tactic Is Deeply Cynical Attacking Medicare for All as a threat to Medicare is pretty bald-faced.
medicare for all
8/24/2018
New Poll Finds Majority of GOP Voters Support Medicare for All It isn’t politically risky for Democrats to campaign on Medicare for All. But actually implementing it will be a different story.
No, Medicare for All Isn’t Just Like Medicare, But for All Single-payer health care has many attractive features, but simply expanding Medicare as we know it isn’t one of them.
Sanders’s Medicare-for-All Bill Is Missing Key Details, But That’s Not the Point Fifteen top Democrats support the plan, which is currently more significant than Sanders’s failure to flesh out how single-payer would be paid for.
The Left Has Made Medicare for All a Mainstream, Democratic Policy But to make universal health care a reality, progressive activists are going to need to do a whole lot more than that.
women in politics
8/31/2017
The Growing Battle Within the Progressive Left Over Medicare-for-All Doubts about Medicare-for-All are arising on the left as well as the center, despite activist efforts to make support for it a litmus test.
Why ‘Medicare for All’ Is a Misleading Term for Single-Payer Health Care While it’s handy shorthand to describe single-payer proposals as “Medicare for all,” the retirement program might not work that well for everyone.
Aetna CEO Says America Should Have a ‘Debate’ About Single Payer “Single payer, I think we should have that debate as a nation,” Mark Bertolini told employees in a private meeting.
Obamacare Was a Political Success It hurt the Democrats in the short run. But new polling confirms that the ACA gave the left a permanent advantage in the health-care debate.
Congressional Democrats Warm to Bernie Sanders’s Agenda In 2015, Sanders’s “free college” bill had zero co-sponsors. The one introduced Monday already has five.
