House Democrats bring back Medicare-for-all, seeking to push Biden left

[JustAGuy1]

House Democrats on Wednesday will renew their effort to enact Medicare-for-all, arguing the year-long pandemic was a “wake-up call” to replace the nation’s fragmented health insurance system — and betting they can pressure President Biden to embrace a government-run program that he famously rejected.

“Everybody is seeing the chaos and the destruction that the pandemic has caused,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and one of the bill’s lead authors. “And it’s really making people look and [ask], could we have had something different had we had a Medicare-for-all system in place?”
Advocates acknowledge that a Medicare-for-all bill has never cleared a single committee, let alone Congress. But Jayapal, co-lead author Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) and their 109 co-sponsors, who represent more than half of the Democratic caucus, argue the case for it has never been stronger. They cite data that the coronavirus disproportionately affected low-income Americans who lacked sufficient health coverage and had preventable preexisting conditions, and that millions of Americans lost their job-based health insurance as businesses shuttered.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/16/house-democrats-medicare-for-all-biden/

Game , set, match. We can't stop it.

 

[JGalt]

"Like a dog returning to its vomit..."

Democrats are persistent little fuckers.

 

[gtopa1]

House Democrats on Wednesday will renew their effort to enact Medicare-for-all, arguing the year-long pandemic was a “wake-up call” to replace the nation’s fragmented health insurance system — and betting they can pressure President Biden to embrace a government-run program that he famously rejected.

“Everybody is seeing the chaos and the destruction that the pandemic has caused,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and one of the bill’s lead authors. “And it’s really making people look and [ask], could we have had something different had we had a Medicare-for-all system in place?”
Advocates acknowledge that a Medicare-for-all bill has never cleared a single committee, let alone Congress. But Jayapal, co-lead author Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) and their 109 co-sponsors, who represent more than half of the Democratic caucus, argue the case for it has never been stronger. They cite data that the coronavirus disproportionately affected low-income Americans who lacked sufficient health coverage and had preventable preexisting conditions, and that millions of Americans lost their job-based health insurance as businesses shuttered.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/16/house-democrats-medicare-for-all-biden/

Game , set, match. We can't stop it.

The way it works here is a lesson. The poor get free doctor visits but they who pay get a BIG co-payment regardless of insurance. So how did that affect costs? The co-payment was the same size as the cost of a visit PRE-Medicare; the Docs pocketed the rebate amount. Poor people were considered bad customers and frankly most doctors wouldn't take them as patients.

Greg

 

[Grumblenuts]

Great!

 

[Jets]

Let’s see if the Democrats in Congress can pass this without carping at one another.

 

[Concerned American]

They cite data that the coronavirus disproportionately affected low-income Americans who lacked sufficient health coverage and had preventable preexisting conditions, and that millions of Americans lost their job-based health insurance as businesses shuttered.

When these low-income people lost their employer-provided health care, they went on Medicaid. These progs are just trying to bring healthcare in this country down to the level of every other third world country. SMH.