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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
GOP’s Latest Mediscare Tactic Is Deeply Cynical Attacking Medicare for All as a threat to Medicare is pretty bald-faced.
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.
