Elizabeth Warren Vows to Expand Health Coverage in First 100 Days (delay Medicare For All 3 years)

New York Times ^ | November 15, 2019 | Abby Goodnough, Thomas Kaplan and Margot Sanger-Katz

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WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren vowed on Friday to pass major health care legislation in her first 100 days as president, unveiling a new, detailed plan to significantly expand public health insurance coverage as a first step, and promising to pass a “Medicare for all” system by the end of her third year in office that would cover all Americans.

The initial bill she would seek to pass if elected would be a step short of the broader Medicare for all plan she has championed. But it would substantially expand the reach and generosity of public health insurance, creating a government plan that would offer free coverage to all American children and people earning less than double the federal poverty rate, or about $50,000 for a family of four, and that could be purchased by other Americans who want it.

Ms. Warren has not previously outlined a timeline for enacting Medicare for all. In essence, Friday’s plan is a detailed road map for eventually achieving that goal, which would create a single government-run health program and end private insurance coverage. Her proposal would move people into that system gradually — in a way she hopes would build public support for a full-fledged single-payer program — while temporarily preserving the employer-based insurance system that covers most working-age adults today.

Ms. Warren’s eventual goal — a wholesale transformation of how Americans get health insurance — is a big political gamble. Her Medicare for all plan would require an estimated $20.5 trillion in new federal spending over a decade, and to provide funding for it, she would impose new taxes on businesses and the richest Americans.

But the plan she presented on Friday stops short of calling for the enactment of such a sweeping overhaul at the beginning of her presidency.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I'll say it before and I'll say it again:

You can cover all the people you want.

But who is going to provide the care?

There are only so many primary care physicians, and many of them are retiring. So that means many people (including the illegal aliens) will be using the ER or Urgent Care as their primary source of care.

So what's going to happen to alleviate the ERs and UCs being swamped?

R-A-T-I-O-N-I-N-G.

[SunkenCiv]

Mediocare for all. But first...

• Elizabeth Warren: Free Health Care For Illegal Aliens? Sure! ( And Bernie Too )

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Elizabeth Warren Vows to Expand Health Coverage in First 100 Days (delay Medicare For All 3 years)

Sounds like the old Commie '5 year plans'...

[SunkenCiv]

Impeach Warren! :^)