Sanders: I'm 'absolutely' introducing single-payer healthcare bill
Source: The Hill
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that he will absolutely introduce legislation on single-payer healthcare now that the Senate GOPs bill to repeal ObamaCare has failed.
Of course we are, were tweaking the final points of the bill and were figuring out how we can mount a national campaign to bring people together, Sanders told Jake Tapper on CNNs State of the Union.
Sanders promised to introduce a Medicare for All proposal once the debate over repealing ObamaCare ended. He is one of several progressive lawmakers that backs the healthcare model that has divided Democratic lawmakers.
Its unclear exactly when he will introduce the legislation. The Senate has two weeks remaining in sessions.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/344520-sanders-im-absolutely-introducing-single-payer-healthcare-bill
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Let's show 'em what common sense, equality and compassion really look like.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Be great as well if Medicare for All crossed state lines and was accepted by all Doctors AND pharmacies.
No more tiny networks and restricted to one pharmacy with ridiculous over-priced medicine!
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,064 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)...here's the March report:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/sanders-to-introduce-single-payer-health-care-plan-236516
Sanders to offer single-payer health care plan
By CRISTIANO LIMA 03/26/2017 11:09 AM EDT
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday he planned to introduce a single-payer health care plan to Congress, inviting Republican leaders to negotiate the measure.
I'm going to introduce a Medicare-for-all single-payer program," Sanders told anchor Dana Bash on CNN's "State of the Union." The Vermont senator, who has repeatedly stated his support for such a plan in the past, said he hoped to garner bipartisan support for the plan.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)This might be a good time to do it.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)That means he's really really really gonna do it this time. Honest! Or not. Or, he'll steal John Conyer's ideas. That Democrat has been working on Medicare for All for over 15 years.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Would seem to me like they'd be stronger together.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,768 posts)But I believe Sanders has introduced it before but it failed. But perhaps it will have more support this time. I hope.
George II
(67,782 posts)...more than once to announce that he would introduce it.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Seriously, he's written several Medicare for All bills and one amendment and he's also been fighting tirelessly to generate support to save the ACA. Now he's being criticized for waiting until that fight is over?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)The important thing is that he continues to do the same thing over and over again... the results will be different this time.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Just ask John Conyers who's also been fighting for universal health care.
Would women's, lgbt, civil and voting rights have passed if advocates had said "it's too hard, I give up"?
But when Bernie does it it's characterized as insanity?
Gotta love that double standard.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Getting the support of the people who matter most: us.
It's like everyone forgot how politics works.
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)but you never know
R B Garr
(16,994 posts)The DEMOCRATS have been introducing this bill repeatedly.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Democrats have been pushing this for years. Obama actually wanted single payer for ACA but had to settle for a bill that could (and did) pass. Democrats have always planned to improve the ACA, but that takes Democratic majorities in both houses.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)right?
I mean, OUR President Obama had majorities in both houses and a stronger majority in the Senate than Republicans do now and he still couldn't get his public option passed.
Apparently it matters what kind of Democrats we put in Congress.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)Medical practitioners who have shown up at Baucus-chaired roundtable discussions to demand consideration of a real fix the single-payer, genuinely-public reform that assures all Americans will have health care while at the same time holding down costs are being taken into custody and removed from the hearing rooms.
At the first Finance Committee session last week, Dr. Margaret Flowers and seven others were taken into custody when they urged Baucus to include witnesses who support single-payer.
Dr. Flowers discussed her arrest on Ed Schultzs MSNBC show, explaining that physicians, nurses and reform groups representing more than 20 million Americans had repeatedly asked to be heard by Baucus and his colleagues.
But the answer from Baucus, who has been charged by the Obama administration with shaping a health-care plan, has been to call in the cops.
They just dont want to hear from single-payer, explained Dr. Flowers, a pediatrician from Maryland. Weve been trying for months now, meeting with members of Congress, to be included in the hearings at the events that they are holding and they keep excluding us.
After reviewing the details of the Baucus overreaction, Schultz asked: President Obama: Do you support excluding people from the discussion?
Obama has not responded.
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Whether he would have had to compromise and not go with SP eventually, how is banning and arresting even any talk of SP during the Senate Finance Committee hearing indicate that Democrats have been "pushing this for years"?
How does Hillary saying about SP, People who have health emergencies cant wait for us to have a theoretical debate about some better idea that will never, ever come to pass. show how the Democrats have been "pushing this for years"?
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)I don't know why people are acting like Bernie is just copying someone else when he's been advocating a national health care system since he was first elected to congress. And others who came before him also advocated single payer universal health care - so it's not like the idea was invented in 2003.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)He has just been one of the most vocal proponents.
Who cares what American politician first suggested it? I'm sure Bernie doesn't.
Its just funny to see some that were on the front lines bashing Bernie during the primary for HIS silly pie in the sky idea of having a Single Payer system, now that it is being pushed by other Democrats, suddenly they want to emphasize how this great idea was never his to begin with.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)And yeah, didn't some people call his plan a 'pony'? You know how those silly progressives and their radical ideas for socialized health care are, always wanting free stuff.
Now a majority of our congressmen/women support Conyers' Medicare for All bill and no one is laughing at them anymore.
That's progress.
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)itz what they are here for..
George II
(67,782 posts)WoonTars
(694 posts)Obama ceded too much ground before the republicans were even at the table...
George II
(67,782 posts)WoonTars
(694 posts)...or has the post ceased to be valid?
And i think it's precisely one month old, not more than, unless I'm reading your July 31st post in the future...
George II
(67,782 posts)....so, you do the math.
The point is that this discussion was over and done with weeks ago. What is your point in resurrecting it now?
WoonTars
(694 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 1, 2017, 08:16 PM - Edit history (1)
My bad.
George II
(67,782 posts)R B Garr
(16,994 posts)bill and not let anyone take away that a good DEMOCRAT has introduced it -- for real -- for well over a decade.
As I remember, the GOP had to be reminded of Romneycare extensively during this process. Admonishing Democrats for having to work with that reality of GOP opposition is important. Criticizing Democrats for this reality is just divisive.
WoonTars
(694 posts)...and Bernie is introducing it in the Senate...i believe he introducing similar when, like John Conyers, he was in the House, back in 1991...
R B Garr
(16,994 posts)It's McDermott's bill in the Senate. Bernie doesn't have a bill. The main point being that Democrats have been working for decades for single payer/universal health care. Not just one man, so we can dispense with the false notions that Democrats are out of touch. LOL.
George II
(67,782 posts)R B Garr
(16,994 posts)Democrats fighting for health care. It's not appreciated that our history is rewritten with smears and falsehoods.
That was so enjoyable listening to Kennedy! We should bring him up more as a wonderful reminder..
murielm99
(30,777 posts)He has been introducing it since 2003.
Why doesn't Bernie just announce his support for Conyers' bill?
R B Garr
(16,994 posts)Why can't Bernie just announce his support for Conyers' bill.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)When he was in the house he did support Conyers' bills, in fact he cosponsored them - but he became a senator in 2006. Since then he's sponsored his own bills.
TastyTaters
(17 posts)disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)understanding how things work when it doesn't support their irrational perspective..
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"when it doesn't support their irrational perspective..."
Or their sacred cows, as well.
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)"Maybe because he's not in the house anymore, he's a senator now.
When he was in the house he did support Conyers' bills, in fact he cosponsored them - but he became a senator in 2006. Since then he's sponsored his own bills."
What part of that is irrational?? Seems quite factual.. or am I mooing up the wrong tree??
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)nt
IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)hopefully it will be well planned out and thorough. Because we may get our chance sooner than we expect if Mueller finds something damning enough for the American people finally decide to throw these bums out of office.
It would be a good exercise in seeing who in our party would be willing to go on record supporting it. We need to get any back and forth arguments out of the way earlier on so we don't repeat the mistakes that happened during passing of the PPACA.
Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)still_one
(92,454 posts)However, if somehow it was able to get to the floor, it better be very detailed how it would get funded, and services distributed. If it didn't have those details, then it would be counter productive, and hurt future endeavors.
The positive aspect of this, even if it doesn't make it to the floor, is that it might just open the door where this actually becomes part of the discussion, but as I mentioned before, it MUST addresse the funding and how the services will be distributed, or it will hurt the cause for single payer
R B Garr
(16,994 posts)Reality is a thing.
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)Coming on the heals of the Republicans failure to shove crap down our throats I think it is excellent timing. I don't care who's idea it was at first. The fact that Bernie is leading a charge on this issue to force the media and politicians to talk about it is an improvement and a good step forward. I hope other Democrats will join in the call for SP.
We will never get it if we don't bring it up and fight for it!!!
still_one
(92,454 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)If our representatives waited for the 'right time' they would never write any legislation. No one thinks this will pass but it shows the American public the difference between conservatives and liberals. Now is the perfect time to fight!
nycbos
(6,039 posts)Bernie supported the ACA (to take a educated guess) because he saw it as a means of putting us on the path toward single payer.
I am sure knows he can't get single payer though this congress and knows the next step is adding a public option to the ACA.
I am guessing that is his strategy. Get it on peoples minds, show everyone the sky won't fall down with a public option and THEN go for single payer.
andym
(5,445 posts)Obviously it is not going to become law anythime soon., but the comparison with Trumpcare and Obamacare is going to be important going forward. Also, how it will be paid for-- increase of Medicare tax? National sales tax on items > $1000, etc.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)And here's Bernie in 1991 advocating a national health care system - just one month after being elected to Congress :
He's been working to save the ACA behind the scene and also by generating support for it publicly.
You go, Bernie! We need more tireless senators like him.
diva77
(7,664 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)I'm glad more people are realizing Bernie was right all along about health care.
Fortunately he never let the nay-sayers discourage him, he just keeps trying.
R B Garr
(16,994 posts)They were mocked and ridiculed. That is actually a subject in the CNN special "The Nineties". The Clintons plans to introduce health care for all. Lots of DEMOCRATS are also TIRELESS about the subject.
Yet neither one has passed. Thank goodness for Obama's ACA, which some senators criticized as not good enough.
Reality is a thing.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Initech
(100,108 posts)Hieronymus
(6,039 posts)now is the time to strike.
harun
(11,348 posts)anyone willing to pay a 10% income tax get's the insurance and care they need.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)harun
(11,348 posts)Would rather it also be limited by wealth but that is a whole other topic.
demmiblue
(36,903 posts)disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)The right is terrified of this.. if you claim to be part of the "resistance" and don't support this.. you are a fraud
murielm99
(30,777 posts)I will stick with the ACA and finding ways to improve it.
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)with yourself & with others..
JCanete
(5,272 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)They should have built a threat of this into the original bill: every year insurance companies increase premiums above a certain amount, the age for Medicare eligibility should have been lowered a year or two.
R B Garr
(16,994 posts)want to improve on it. What is fraudulent is insisting on a my-way-or-the-highway approach with absolutely no success ever to back it up.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Thanks to very-right-of-center, Big Insurance-fattened Lieberturd and Baucus, guess not.
America needs to move into the 21st century and get a multi-payer health care system.
I really DON'T think that's too much to ask for. You wouldn't know that by the sentiments and downerisms of some, though.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Glad to see it.