Wednesday, June 28, 2017

ELIZABETH WARREN: 'THE NEXT STEP IS SINGLE-PAYER' HEALTH CARE

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., carry photographs of their constituents who would be adversely affected by the proposed Republican Senate health-care bill after speaking to reporters outside the Capitol Building in Washington, on Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik / AP)

Elizabeth Warren: ‘The next step is single-payer’ health care

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday that opposing the Republican health-care bill wasn’t enough and the Democratic Party should start running on a new national single-payer plan.

“President Obama tried to move us forward with health-care coverage by using a conservative model that came from one of the conservative think tanks that had been advanced by a Republican governor in Massachusetts,” she told The Wall Street Journal. ”Now it’s time for the next step. And the next step is single payer.”


Polling has shown government-provided health care to be a very popular notion among Americans. Depending on whether it’s described as a public option, Medicare for all, or federally funded universal health care, proposals are supported by 57 to 61 percent of Americans, compared with only 19 to 24 percent opposed.

http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/elizabeth-warren-the-next-step-is-single-payer-health-care/

My comments: We can assume, if implemented, a Single Payer System would work like the VA System.

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