Claire McCaskill in Vox Media

On Health Care: Keep options open, instead of single-payer

During Barack Obama's presidency, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) could only find 62 other House Democrats willing to co-sponsor his single-payer health care proposal--which would expand Medicare to cover every American. But now that Speaker Paul Ryan's House health care bill has imploded, Conyers's team has already signed up 78 co-sponsors for the exact same single-payer bill. And Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced over the weekend he'd be launching a new Medicare-for-All initiative.

But while Sanders and progressive Democrats clamor for a more aggressive approach, some Senate Democrats expressed skepticism about the need to go that far, that quickly. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) was openly critical, arguing "it's important that we keep options open for people who rely on health care." Most preferred to duck the question altogether, and concentrate on defending Americans who are covered under ObamaCare, as Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) put it.

Source: Jeff Stein in Vox.com, "TrumpCare dead" Mar 29, 2017

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