Advisory: Sanders to Announce Medicare for All Bill Wednesday Sept 13 at 2PM

[Donkees]

[comradebillyboy]

1. I hope the bill has more substance than simply

demanding medicare for all. Medicare for all might be feasible if the entire American health care system is reformed. But simply demanding 'medicare for all' does nothing to address the very disparate and powerful interests in the existing system.

To all the folks who think medicare is 'single payer', I have medicare and I also have a supplemental insurance policy to cover all the things basic medicare doesn't cover.

[leftofcool]

3. Medicare as it is sucks

I should know, I am on it.

[R B Garr]

5. Exactly, this is what was done in California. They submitted a "bill" that was more a

"values" statement. Now they are abusing the progressive Democrat who could not continue it without costs attached or discussed. Now they are trying to "recall" him.

Attempt to recall a good progressive Democrat:
https://ballotpedia.org/Anthony_Rendon_recall,_California_State_Assembly_(2017)

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2. "and senate co-sponsors" LOL. no need to share the spotlight eh? nt

[Donkees]

4. Sheldon Whitehouse will Co-Sponsor Sanders' Medicare for All Bill

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5. This just in: Sheldon Whitehouse will cosponsor the “Medicare for All” single-payer health insurance bill that Bernie Sanders is introducing next week. “Senator Whitehouse intends to cosponsor this bill to move the conversation forward on single-payer health care,” spokeswoman Meaghan McCabe told me Friday night. “The senator will also continue to press for legislation to create a public health insurance option, which he co-authored with Senators Brown and Franken, and has long supported.” Jack Reed’s office has not yet said whether he will sign onto Sanders’ legislation, which is already emerging as a high-profile litmus test for Democrats.

[Donkees]

6. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey on Monday became the latest to offer support for Sanders' legislation

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey on Monday became the latest to offer support for Sanders' legislation.

"I'm signing onto Medicare-for-all, which I'm excited to do this week," Booker said in an interview with NJTV. "Sen. Sanders, myself, and some others are going to be announcing some legislation this week along with some of my other colleagues."

http://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-cory-booker-elizabeth-warren-kamala-harris-2017-9

[Donkees]

7. Thank you @SenJeffMerkley for joining us in the fight to make Medicare for all a reality.

Thank you @SenJeffMerkley for joining us in the fight to make Medicare for all a reality.

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[Expecting Rain]

8. We need to get past posturing and sloganeering.

This shell of a bill won't advance progress. It is all for show and that's not good enough.