Medicare for All Advocates Slam 'Cynical and Dishonest' Healthcare Initiative Aimed at Killing Singl
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Medicare for All Advocates Rip 'Cynical and Dishonest' Healthcare Initiative as Ploy to Undermine Single Payer
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Wednesday, February 07, 2018
byCommon Dreams
"The path already exists. The movement already exists. The political will exists. What's lacking is a willingness to stand up for values that people already agree with for fear of alienating people like Bill Frist."
by Julia Conley, staff writer
Medicare for All advocates on Wednesday denounced a new healthcare initiative introduced by a bipartisan group of former lawmakers, health policy administrators, and healthcare sector CEOs.
Critics argue that the non-profit, United States of Care, ignores the majority of Americans who back government-run healthcare for all, instead catering to centrist Democrats in Washington who pledge to "ensure that every single American has access to quality, affordable healthcare" while insisting that a universal healthcare program—like the ones that exist in every other industrialized country in the world—is unfeasible.
The group, whose co-founders include former Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who led efforts to privatize Medicare, is ambiguous about its plans for the American healthcare system, vaguely promising on its website to "change the conversation and put healthcare over politics."
But another co-founder of the new group, former Medicare and Medicaid administrator Andy Slavitt, has been clear about the group's opposition to a single-payer healthcare program.
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