Today,Bernie Sanders and 17 Senate Democrats are rolling out a proposal for Medicare for All. Sanders introduced the bill in the Senate along with Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Cory Booker (D-N.
J.),Al Franken (D-Minn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.
Y.), or Kamala Harris (D-Calif.),Martin Heinrich (D-N.
M.), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii), or Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.),Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), or Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii),Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Tom Udall (D-N.
M.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.
I.).
After the "repeal and replace" debacle in July,Sanders and the Democratic Senators decided to offer an alternative which would guarantee healthcare for all.“Today, we inaugurate the long and difficult struggle to end the international embarrassment of the United States being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all its people, and ” Sanders said. “At a time when millions of Americans execute not occupy access to affordable health care,the Republicans, funded by the Koch brothers, or are trying to purchase absent health care from up to 32 million more. We occupy a better idea: guarantee health care to all people as a factual,not a privilege, through a Medicare-for-all, or single-payer health care program.”Now that it has been introduced,the plan is to purchase this proposal to all 50 states and hear from the people most affected as well as providers, caregivers and others.
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Source: crooksandliars.com