Here are all the incoming members of Congress who want ‘Medicare for all’

[rangerrebew]

Here are all the incoming members of Congress who want ‘Medicare for all’
November 10, 2018 | BPR Wire | Print Article
 

The House Medicare for All Caucus could count some new members when the 116th Congress convenes in January, although progressive candidates on the whole had a less than stellar performance on Election Day Tuesday.

Democratic Rep.-elects Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Deb Haaland of New Mexico and more winning progressive candidates campaigned on “Medicare for all.”

The idea came to national attention because of Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who introduced a Medicare-for-all bill in Congress in September 2017, but there’s still no hard and fast definition of Medicare for all. Candidates like Ocasio Cortez and Haaland touted iterations of the proposed single-payer system that caused many critics to question how it would be funded.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/11/10/here-are-all-the-incoming-members-of-congress-who-want-medicare-for-all-692232

[Applewood]

I believe that there are Republicans who want the same thing or some kind of government-run health care.   That may explain why the Republicans, even with both houses of congress and the presidency for two years couldn't rid us of Obamacare.  It's not really that they couldn't; they really don't want to.

[musiclady]

I believe that there are Republicans who want the same thing or some kind of government-run health care.   That may explain why the Republicans, even with both houses pf congress and the presidency for two years couldn't rid us of Obamacare.  It's not really that they couldn't; they really don't want to.

This.

Empty campaign promises because, though the American people want Obamacare to disappear, the politicians don't.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

On the bright side, this will create a minor schism within the Dem Party as Red State Dems clash with their newer more openly Marxist members.

[jmyrlefuller]

that caused many critics to question how it would be funded.

Oh, they've got that figured out already: spike the payroll tax, then spike the minimum wage even higher to make it less noticeable.

Until, of course, what happened the last time the national minimum wage went up happens again, which of course was the recession and a plummeting job market.