Medicare For All

DETAILS:

Today, more than 30 million Americans still don’t have health insurance and even more are underinsured. Even for those with insurance, costs are so high that medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States. Americans have worse health outcomes and a higher infant mortality rate than countries that spend much less on health care. Our people deserve better.

The economic reality is that we currently spend nearly 18 percent of our GDP on health care – over $10,000 per person. If we retain the status quo, we will spend an estimated nearly $60 trillion over the next decade on health care. Meanwhile, drug companies and insurance companies make hundreds of billions of dollars in profits each year. That is unaffordable, unsustainable, and unacceptable. Medicare For All is CHEAPER and saves lives. There is no reason to be opposed, morally or fiscally.

The giant pharmaceutical and health insurance lobbies have spent billions of dollars over the past decades to ensure that their profits come before the health of the American people. We must defeat them together. America needs to join every other major country on Earth and guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege, through a Medicare-for-all, single-payer program.

KEY POINTS:

  • Create a Medicare for All, single-payer, national health insurance program to provide everyone in America with comprehensive health care coverage, free at the point of service.

  • Stop the pharmaceutical industry from ripping off the American people by making sure that no one in America pays over $200 a year for the medicine they need by capping what Americans pay for prescription drugs under Medicare for All.

  • 5 5-year plan of expanding Medicare to all within our country, with lowering the Medicare age from 65 to 55 in the first year. 45 in the second year. 35 in the third year. 25 in the fourth. Then continue to cover the rest of America in the final year.

  • No networks, no premiums, no deductibles, no copays, no surprise bills.

  • Eliminating All Medical Debt