Progressive Democrats Join Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Reintroduction of Medicare for All Act, Democracy Now!, Headline, Apr. 30, 2025
Democratic Congress members Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell joined Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday in reintroducing the Medicare for All Act, which would provide universal single-payer healthcare based on patient needs, not industry profits.
Sen. Bernie Sanders: “Our legislation would provide comprehensive care to all Americans — rich, poor, young or old — with zero out-of-pocket expense. It would provide full freedom of choice regarding healthcare providers: You go to the doctor or the nurse that you want to. No more insurance premiums, no more deductibles, no more copayments, no more filling out endless forms!”
Sanders, Jayapal, And Dingell Press Conference About Reintroducing Medicare For All, Forbes Breaking News, Video (47 min), April 29, 2025
Comment:
By Jim Kahn, M.D., M.P.H.
Amidst the current oligarchic turn of national politics, with cynical performative gestures toward efficiency obscuring the billionaire pursuit of government largesse, it is critical to reassert our quest for Medicare for All — the powerfully synergistic combination of efficiency and generosity designed to help everyone.
M4A, aka single payer, is the magical yet real and practical strategy that would trim away hundreds of billions of dollars in profits and administrative burden, facilitating directing our massive spending on health care to … health care! (instead of executives and shareholders). Families will save money, and hundreds of thousands of deaths will be averted.
Many thanks to our progressive Congressional leaders, for again promoting this admirable vision in legislative form.
To learn more, and to urge your elected officials to co-sponsor the bills, consult the PNHP website.
And stay the course. We will, eventually, guide US policy to the commonsense solution used around the world: simple and comprehensive health insurance for everyone.
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