Medicare for All Act Reintroduced in Congress
Yesterday progressive Congressional leaders submitted the 2025 version of Medicare for All. In this time of oligarchic dominance, the symbolism remains powerful, even if there are no short-term prospects for passage. The fight for just and efficient health insurance continues.
April 30, 2025
Progressive Democrats Join Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Reintroduction of Medicare for All Act
Democracy Now!
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Apr 30, 2025
Democratic Congress members Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell joined Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday in reintroducing the Medicare for All Act, which would provide universal single-payer healthcare based on patient needs, not industry profits.
Sen. Bernie Sanders: “Our legislation would provide comprehensive care to all Americans — rich, poor, young or old — with zero out-of-pocket expense. It would provide full freedom of choice regarding healthcare providers: You go to the doctor or the nurse that you want to. No more insurance premiums, no more deductibles, no more copayments, no more filling out endless forms!”
Sanders, Jayapal, And Dingell Press Conference About Reintroducing Medicare For All
Forbes Breaking News
Video (47 min)
April 29, 2025
Comment by: Jim Kahn
Amidst the current oligarchic turn of national politics, with cynical performative gestures toward efficiency obscuring the billionaire pursuit of government largesse, it is critical to reassert our quest for Medicare for All — the powerfully synergistic combination of efficiency and generosity designed to help everyone.
M4A, aka single payer, is the magical yet real and practical strategy that would trim away hundreds of billions of dollars in profits and administrative burden, facilitating directing our massive spending on health care to … health care! (instead of executives and shareholders). Families will save money, and hundreds of thousands of deaths will be averted.
Many thanks to our progressive Congressional leaders, for again promoting this admirable vision in legislative form.
To learn more, and to urge your elected officials to co-sponsor the bills, consult the PNHP website.
And stay the course. We will, eventually, guide US policy to the commonsense solution used around the world: simple and comprehensive health insurance for everyone.
About the Commentator, Jim Kahn
Jim (James G.) Kahn, MD, MPH (editor) is an Emeritus Professor of Health Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health at the University of California, San Francisco. His work focuses on the cost and effectiveness of prevention and treatment interventions in low and middle income countries, and on single payer economics in the U.S. He has studied, advocated, and educated on single payer since the 1994 campaign for Prop 186 in California, including two years as chair of Physicians for a National Health Program California.
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