Sullivan writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Monday that he thinks a new health-care plan from a Democratic think tank shows that the party is moving toward his position on health care."
Senator Bernie Sanders. (photo: Getty)
Bernie Sanders: New Health-Care Plan Shows Dems Moving Toward 'Medicare for All'
06 March 18
en. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Monday that he thinks a new health-care plan from a Democratic think tank shows that the party is moving toward his position on health care.
Asked if he thinks the plan from the Center for American Progress (CAP), which comes very close to Sanders’s signature idea of "Medicare for all," shows the Democratic Party is moving his way, Sanders told The Hill, "Yes, I do."
The plan released by CAP, a group with close ties to Sanders’s former primary opponent Hillary Clinton, is not quite single-payer in that it still allows for employer-based insurance as an option. But it otherwise provides Medicare for all people, something very close to Sanders's vision and a leftward shift from previous major Democratic plans.
Sanders alluded to the fact that the CAP plan does not go as far as his own, but called it a "step."
He pressed his calls for universal coverage and said "I think that the most cost-effective way to do that is by expanding Medicare, eliminating the private insurance companies, and then saving tremendous amounts of money in administrative costs."
"I believe in a Medicare for all, single-payer, but to the degree that people are talking about guaranteeing health care to all people, it's a step."
The CAP plan, called Medicare Extra for All, provides for a government-run health insurance plan modeled off Medicare for all, with the exception of those who choose to remain in employer-based coverage.
That is further than previous plans from Clinton or former President Obama, which largely called for a government-run "public option" that would compete alongside private insurers.
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I’d go a little further and say Dems win both houses of Congress, impeach and convict Trump and Pence, then Patrick Leahy becomes POTUS. He appoints Bernie VP, then steps down to keep Vermont stable. Bernie become POTUS and appoints Elizabeth Warren VP. The heavens part, God looks down and proclaims, “It is good!”
The last recession was just for practice. The one that is coming will be the real thing.
Bernie Sanders demonstrated that it is possible to fund a major election only with small donations, and if not for the blatant favoritism and rigging of the primary to ensure that Clinton got to be the candidate, he might well have won. So when the Dems, and a group with "close ties to the Clinton campaign" at that, proposes to do something that approaches Medicare for All (single payer by any other name) and put a number of insurance companies out of business, it is well to remember how hollow Hillary Clinton's "public positions" were about anything progressive, leading up to the Democratic convention.
I love Bernie, but I don't buy this for a minute.
As have practiced the French, the Germans ,the Canadians, Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Finns, Swiss, British, Russians, etc. . . For decades!
- not another effing "true progressive"?
the good is not the enemy of the perfect!
the progressive is not the enemy of the "true progressive"!
hillary is not the enemy of equal pay for women, gun safety measures, immigrants, so on and so forth to infinity!
your prejudices do not define hillary! she defines herself! hillary was never all bad, and your prejudice cannot veer her so!
other than voting for hillary in the general, because she was better than dickhead and had many, many progressive positions that might be achievable despite a repuke congress - something no other candidate offered - i did not support hillary and pray she never runs again - for decades she has drawn the wrath of conservatives everywhere, as public enemy #1, and hating on hillary is in conservatives' dna - as for getting elected prez, a socialist might have a better chance?
i'm sick of self-styled "true progressives" hating on other progressives! particularly ones who self-fulling prophesy that other progressives are beyond hope of persuasion! - fuck off!
the shortest path to progress lies not thru putin's russia, as several here propose, but thru the dem party!
"Next time, we must resolve to MAKE OUR VOTE COUNT!" - (caps in original) - bernie
Is this an issue that could get us to work together against corporate interests?
The fact neoliberals are clinging to power is hurting the party, which needs to embrace FDR values -- loudly, clearly and often.
- again with the "true" progress?
if there’s no difference between parties? how come dems never come up with crap like repeal aca? how come dems fight for chip, medicaid, medicare, social security, black lives, me too, equal pay, choice, immigrants, marijuana, lgbtq, free college, single payer, family leave, a living minimum wage, EPA. CDC, science, Puerto Rico, free press, free market, free speech, bank regs, clean air & water, no arctic drilling, hike taxes on the rich (3x under barak), justices on scotus who would reverse “citizens united” for bmillionaires, gun safety measures, a prez who is not a dickhead, renewable fuel, so forth?
or is that too much to ask here on rsn? whatsa matta? are differences over such matters too small to care?
- we had our last clear shot at escaping dickhead in nov. 2016 - AND WHIFFED!
“never hillary!” = “dickhead forever!”
don’t it always seem to go?
that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone? - j. mitchell
“we have seen the enemy! and they are us! - pogo
"Next time, we must resolve to MAKE OUR VOTE COUNT!" - (caps in original) - bernie
Go read the article about sixteen Democrats voting to pass bank deregulation. There have been a number of recent votes in which Ds helped Rs pass bad legislation.
Read about the DNC purging progressives.
Read about the DCCC publicly attacking progressive candidates -- which just backfired in TX, by the way.
Read about CA Dems with a supermajority sabotaging Medicare for All.
You obviously aren't a progressive, and your idiocy turns people off to establishment Democrats too. So who exactly are you working for, comrade?
- no one can MAKE you see what you refuse to!
where's your senior tag-team comrade on this, comrade?
does rr dare let b o handle "Bernie Sanders: New Health-Care Plan Shows Dems Moving Toward 'Medicare for All'" - all by yourself?
"Dickhead" was necessary to ensure that many people truly understand the consequences of our electoral system, become engaged enough to start learning what each of the two corrupt parties really represent and start taking action. "Dickhead" is actually spurring progressivism in this country. Yes, he sucks that bad.
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