Tag: Single-payer health care

The Story: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D - Mass), considered by some to be the front-runner for the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, recently set...

"We're going to see what legislation comes out," Royce told her. A spokesman for former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa accused the lieutenant governor of flip-flopping because after Newsom was asked if he explicitly endorsed the legislation — Senate Bill 562 — he responded that he endorsed "getting this debate going again." Speaking to reporters, Newsom said he saw a single-payer system in which the government covers healthcare costs as the best way to achieve universal coverage and said he would be "actively engaged in designing and developing it" if SB 562 does not pass next year. It began when Waters asked Mnuchin why he hadn't responded to a letter Democrats sent him asking for information about President Trump. No firm estimates have been made of the number of state residents who might lose health coverage under the Cassidy-Graham proposal, though earlier efforts from congressional Republicans were estimated to put millions of Californians at risk. In a rare court rebuke of the state Attorney General’s Office, a judge said Friday that the title and summary written for a proposed initiative is misleading — and that he'd do a rewrite himself to make it clear the measure would repeal recently approved increases to gas taxes and vehicle fees. Allen, who is running for governor in 2018, said the court decision showed the attorney general was trying to sway voters against the initiative. Gavin Newsom has made his most explicit endorsement yet of a controversial single-payer healthcare proposal that has roiled Democratic politics in California. Newsom appeared Friday before the California Nurses Assn., the most ardent backers of SB 562, a stalled bill to establish a system in which the state would cover all residents' healthcare costs. We will have universal healthcare in the state of California."

Adolescents are notoriously difficult to reason with. Canada has 36 million people. The U.S. has more than 326 million people. The news has been filled for years with horror stories about wait times and poor care (or no care) within Veterans' Affairs (despite its $200 billion budget) and the Indian Health Service. If the government cannot provide care for 9 million veterans (those actually enrolled in the VA health care system) or 5.2 million Native Americans, what makes anyone think they can provide it for 330 million Americans? Politicians' cost projections are always wrong. Current projections put the costs of Sanders' proposal at $32 trillion dollars. In practical terms, this will means tens of millions more people streaming into the country demanding "free" health care. When the funding deficits hit -- as they always do -- then the public discovers the first hard truth: Single-payer isn't a health care provision system; it is a health care rationing system. There are always unanticipated problems, and government is too big to respond nimbly or change quickly, even when the need is great.

Medicare for All The legislation pitched by Sanders would expand Medicare into a universal health care program guaranteeing insurance to all Americans, in what would create one of the nation's largest and most ambitious social welfare initiatives. (I-Vt.) What it would do The Medicare for All bill would eliminate nearly all private health insurance in favor of a government-run system that ensures comprehensive coverage to every single individual through Medicare. Sanders has not said exactly what Medicare for All will cost or settled on language raising the taxes necessary to support a universal health care system. Leahy (D-Vt.) Medicare Buy-In A group of Senate Democrats led by Debbie Stabenow is proposing legislation that would expand Medicare to allow individuals as young as 55 to buy into the government-run program. Those who favor the bill also hope that expanding the Medicare program would help stabilize Obamacare's still-shaky individual insurance market, which has suffered from a disproportionate percentage of older and sicker enrollees. 12 Democratic senators support it Medicaid Buy-In Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz is penning a proposal to allow states to give their residents the option to buy into the Medicaid program. The as-yet-unveiled bill would let states establish a kind of "public option" on their Obamacare exchanges by letting enrollees choose to purchase private health insurance or a Medicaid plan. Those who are eligible for subsidies to purchase coverage would be able to use them to buy into Medicaid. The bill is also likely to raise the rate that Medicaid pays doctors and hospitals to entice more providers into the system and ensure that enrollees buying into Medicaid have adequate access to care. The enrollees who buy into Medicaid may not necessarily have the same benefit package as those currently in the program, which is tailored to the needs of low-income individuals.