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Medicare For All
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.
By Jonathan Chait
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Margaret Hartmann
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.
By Eric Levitz
women in politics
8/31/2017
By Claire Landsbaum
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Eric Levitz
