Correction, Please!
Dem Plans Aim to Undermine Private Healthcare
Future of Medicare? Analysts have explained that Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All really means “Medicare for none” because Medicare, as seniors know it, would have to be undone to make way for a plan that would require government rationing of services. (Photo credit: AP Images)
Item: Vermont’s independent Senator Bernie Sanders, in a piece in USA Today for May 6, says his proposed legislation (Medicare for All, or MfA), will save Americans from our “health care crisis.” The self-identified socialist lawmaker, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, bemoans the millions who are without health insurance, as well as the many more millions with employer-based insurance who are — in his words — “being fleeced by skyrocketing premiums and prescription drug prices.”
But, says Sanders, “We can guarantee health care as a right to all by expanding Medicare, the most popular and successful program in American history.”
The senator goes on: “Unlike private insurance, Medicare does not threaten to bankrupt people in order to enrich greedy CEOs. Instead, it guarantees coverage. Now here’s more good news: By expanding that coverage to everyone, we will save Americans money.”
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