Liberal House Democrats just unveiled the Medicare for All Act of 2019, a comprehensive bill to abolish virtually all private health plans-including employer-sponsored coverage-and impose total federal government control over Americans' health care.
Despite its sweeping and detailed government control, as well as the imposition of huge but unknown costs, the 120-page bill has nonetheless initially attracted 106 Democrat co-sponsors, almost half of all Democrats in the House.
Under Section 201, Congress would decide the content of the health benefits package, what is and is not to be available in the new government health plan.
Beyond creating a government monopoly of health insurance, it centralizes key health care decisions in the office of the secretary of HHS; establishes a national health budget; and it creates a temporary Medicare-style "Public option" in the moribund Obamacare exchanges.
Like Sanders' bill, the House bill would also eliminate Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, the Obamacare exchange plans, and Tricare, the health program for military dependents.
Ken Thorpe of Emory University, formerly an adviser to President Bill Clinton, estimates that the federal taxation needed to finance the Sanders' plan would amount to an additional 20 percent tax on workers' income, and more than 7 out of 10 working families would end up paying more for health care than they do today.
The House co-sponsors of the Medicare for All Act intend a rapid transformation of American health care.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/28/house-democrats-unveil-plan-to-bring-total-government-control-over-american-health-care/
Despite its sweeping and detailed government control, as well as the imposition of huge but unknown costs, the 120-page bill has nonetheless initially attracted 106 Democrat co-sponsors, almost half of all Democrats in the House.
Under Section 201, Congress would decide the content of the health benefits package, what is and is not to be available in the new government health plan.
Beyond creating a government monopoly of health insurance, it centralizes key health care decisions in the office of the secretary of HHS; establishes a national health budget; and it creates a temporary Medicare-style "Public option" in the moribund Obamacare exchanges.
Like Sanders' bill, the House bill would also eliminate Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, the Obamacare exchange plans, and Tricare, the health program for military dependents.
Ken Thorpe of Emory University, formerly an adviser to President Bill Clinton, estimates that the federal taxation needed to finance the Sanders' plan would amount to an additional 20 percent tax on workers' income, and more than 7 out of 10 working families would end up paying more for health care than they do today.
The House co-sponsors of the Medicare for All Act intend a rapid transformation of American health care.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/28/house-democrats-unveil-plan-to-bring-total-government-control-over-american-health-care/
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