Senator Sanders Offers Medicare-for-All Amendment in Senate

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babsbunny  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Dec-05-09 09:41 PM
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Senator Sanders Offers Medicare-for-All Amendment in Senate
   
Senator Sanders Offers Medicare-for-All Amendment in Senate

http://www.enewspf.com/index.php?option=com_content&vie...

Thursday, 03 December 2009 15:10 Press Release Health Care Reform

CHICAGO--(ENEWSPF)--December 3, 2009. Challenging head-on the powerful private insurance and pharmaceutical industries, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to the Senate health reform bill Wednesday that would replace the bulk of the Senate bill’s language with provisions establishing a single-payer, Medicare-for-All program.

Joining with Sanders, I-Vt., in co-sponsoring the measure, known as Senate Amendment 2837, were Senators Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Roland Burris, D-Ill. Other senators, including Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, have previously declared their support for single-payer health reform. The vote on the measure could take place in the next few days.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7164746

Hey what a wonderful idea. I mean we have tons of money in the treasury just waiting for this and to pay unemployment benefits for the jobs lost in the insurance industry. 

midnight  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Dec-05-09 09:44 PM
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1. Let's get this done.
   
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Skink (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Dec-05-09 09:45 PM
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2. This would really stick it to the private companies....
   
those companies that are looking at dismantling medicare while requireing everyone to be covered.
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Mind_your_head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Dec-05-09 09:45 PM
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3. Kick for single-payer for ALL
   
:kick:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Dec-05-09 09:48 PM
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4. YES.   Updated at 8:13 PM
   
K&R

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druidity33 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Dec-05-09 09:54 PM
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5. K&R for Bernie! nt.
   
   

And so far they all love the idea because they think it will be free.

[TheSarge]

Leave it to an unabashed Socialist...

[Duchess]

Does "all" include the worthy senator and his colleagues in Congress?

[AllosaursRus]

Does "all" include the worthy senator and his colleagues in Congress?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111

ETA (as far as I'm concerned, if these PRICKS are going to dictate to us what our health ins is, what's good enough for then goose is good enough for the gander!)

[crockspot]

I don't understand why Sanders and Leahy aren't pushing/proposing the same system we have here in Vermont. The state has negotiated with two insurers (Blue Cross and MVP) to both offer a decent, more or less identical plan to all Vermont residents. The premium is just under 400 bucks per quarter (so about 130 a month), and if you are poor, the state will subsidize some or all of that premium. (I'm on unemployment, so I pay 60 bucks a month for the plan). It's not much different from the Blue Cross plan I had with my previous employer, which was costing three times as much under COBRA.