Medicare expansion through single payer health care gets support of 15 senators

September 14, 2017September 13, 2017 Marc

bernie sanders health insurance medicare expansion

While Democrats lean toward Sanders’s single payer system, Republicans oppose the measure. Fifteen Democratic senators have shown their interest in a single payer health-care system through widespread Medicare expansion. This represents a considerable shift among Democrats, who have previously seen this type of strategy as politically perilous. Until now, most lawmakers have avoided this type of concept like the plague, but this seems to have changed. Senate Democrats have co-sponsored a measure Senator Bernie Sanders (VT – Independent) proposed yesterday. It was created for broad Medicare expansion in order to…

Veterans health insurance may be dropped by 600,000 in 2017

October 4, 2016September 30, 2016 Nordstrom

More than half a million vets could find themselves without coverage, say researchers. New research from the (left-leaning) Urban Institute has said 600,000 veterans health insurance policies may cease next year. The reason, said the report, is that in 19 states, Medicaid is not expanding enough to cover the vets. Even with the Medicaid expansion that has already occurred, there continue to be hundreds of thousands of uninsured. The Urban Institute has cautioned that unless the 19 states that have continued to withhold the expansion broaden their programs, there will…