As Sanders and Democrats Unveil Medicare For All, Trump Makes Final Push To Kill Healthcare

Last updated on September 25th, 2023 at 02:07 pm

As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and 17 Democratic co-sponsors introduced Medicare For All, Donald Trump and Republicans are making one final push to take health care coverage away from millions of Americans.

In a statement introducing Medicare For All, Sanders said, “Today, we begin the long and difficult struggle to end the international embarrassment of the United States being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all its people. At a time when millions of Americans do not have access to affordable health care, the Republicans, funded by the Koch brothers, are trying to take away health care from up to 32 million more. We have a better idea: guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege, through a Medicare-for-all, single-payer health care program.”

Meanwhile, Trump and Senate Republicans are trying to rush through a last ditch health care bill that would gut Obamacare and cost millions their health insurance by turning it into a block grant program to the states. Cassidy-Graham would cause millions of people to lose their insurance because it would slash funding for the ACA to the states by hundreds of billions of dollars.

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Politico reported that Trump is pushing to take health care away from people by the end of September, “President Donald Trump and some Senate Republicans are refusing to give up on Obamacare repeal, even after this summer’s spectacular failure and with less than a month before a key deadline.”

The reconciliation instructions that allow Republicans to avoid a Democratic filibuster on health care expire at the end of September. If Republicans don’t get a bill passed by then, they will not have enough votes to break a Democratic filibuster.

The contrasting visions for health care in this country have never been more clear. Democrats believe that health care is a right and that the country must move toward universal coverage. Republicans see health care as something that should only be available based on the ability to pay.

The Democrats and Bernie Sanders have the right idea. Health care is a right, and Republicans who believe otherwise are going to get swept away by a building wave of progress.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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