Baucus to meet with single-payer advocates
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) will meet with liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and other supporters of creating a single-payer national healthcare system--just about the only...
View ArticleSanders: Baucus won't consider single payer 'in a million years'
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had some frank thoughts on the healthcare debate when he appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning. Sanders, who advocates a single-payer system, said Sen. Max...
View ArticleConyers hits public option as 'half-stepping' reform
President Obama and Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) are "half-stepping" their proposed reforms of healthcare, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) argued Thursday. Conyers said that the plans being considered in...
View ArticleTrump on Dems’ ‘universal' health-care push: ‘No thanks’
President Trump on Monday said “no thanks” to any push from Democrats for a "universal" health care system in the United States. “The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of...
View ArticleEllison replaces Conyers on Dem single-payer bill
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) has replaced former Rep. John Conyers Jr. as the main sponsor of the House Democrats’ single-payer health-care bill.Ellison on Wednesday received unanimous consent from the...
View ArticleSay it with me: Democrats are the party of health care
Ask five Democrats what our party’s message is and odds are you’re not going to get the same answer from any of them.Therein lies the problem. Not because there aren’t a multitude of things the...
View ArticleJudd Gregg: Two ideas whose time has not come
The deficit this year will be over $800 billion. Next year it will be close to $1 trillion. For the next decade, it will annually exceed $1 trillion.The national public debt is over $21 trillion. It is...
View ArticlePelosi on single-payer health care: 'How do you pay for that?'
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) expresses some skepticism about single-payer health insurance in a new interview, asking how the trillions of dollars in new spending would be paid for.“That is,...
View ArticleSanders criticizes Biden health plan: 'It doesn't go anywhere near...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) criticized his 2020 Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden’s health care plan on Wednesday, saying it falls short of needed changes.“It doesn't go anywhere near far...
View ArticleDemocratic presidential hopefuls cite 'good, bad and the ugly' of...
Recent weeks have produced some dissension among Democratic presidential contenders regarding “Medicare for All,” a proposal championed by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and...
View ArticleDelaney swipes at Warren: She 'outsourced health care to someone who...
Former Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.) has doubled down on his opposition to “Medicare for All,” taking a swing at two of his top-tier opponents in the Democratic primary: Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)...
View Article'Medicare for All': The hype v. Maryland's reality
“Medicare for All” advocates, such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), argue that single-payer health care could help pay for a major expansion of coverage by greatly reducing the cost of purchasing...
View ArticleLabor Day jitters on both sides of America's political divide
It's the norm that on Labor Day the year before a Presidential election a political party is nervous. What's unusual today is that both Republicans and Democrats are edgy.For Republicans, Trump's even...
View ArticleNew study: Full-scale 'Medicare for All' costs $32 trillion over 10...
A new study finds that a full-scale single-payer health insurance program, also called "Medicare for All," would cost about $32 trillion over 10 years. The study from the Urban Institute and the...
View ArticleThink 'Medicare for All' is a good idea? Fly to LAX and call an Uber
Here’s a modest proposal for anyone who believes “Medicare for All” is a good idea: Fly into Los Angeles right now and try to get an Uber.What used to be a messy process that sometimes required a wait...
View Article'Medicare for All' will turn into health care for none
Whether we can use the results as legitimate or not, the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries showed one thing — progressive policies articulated by former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg...
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