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Liberals and conservatives in Congress were planning on Wednesday to set forth two radically different proposals for health care: a huge expansion of Medicare, which would open the program to all Americans, and a rollback of the Affordable Care Act, which would give each state a lump sum of federal money with sweeping new discretion over how to use it.
The proposals signaled a resumption of the health care wars on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers tried — for opposite reasons — to move beyond President Barack Obama’s health care law, either building on it or tearing it down. The one thing both efforts had in common: Neither are likely to be enacted any time soon.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the onetime candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, proposed what he called “a Medicare-for-all, single-payer health care system,” and he said 15 Democratic senators supported it.
read more https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/...re-obamacare-single-payer-graham-cassidy.html
The proposals signaled a resumption of the health care wars on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers tried — for opposite reasons — to move beyond President Barack Obama’s health care law, either building on it or tearing it down. The one thing both efforts had in common: Neither are likely to be enacted any time soon.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the onetime candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, proposed what he called “a Medicare-for-all, single-payer health care system,” and he said 15 Democratic senators supported it.
read more https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/...re-obamacare-single-payer-graham-cassidy.html
