Call your Senators.

How is it better than Conyers' bill:

Introduced in House (01/24/2017)

Expanded & Improved Medicare for All Act

This bill establishes the Medicare for All Program to provide all individuals residing in the United States and U.S. territories with free health care that includes all medically necessary care, such as primary care and prevention, dietary and nutritional therapies, prescription drugs, emergency care, long-term care, mental health services, dental services, and vision care.

Only public or nonprofit institutions may participate. Nonprofit health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that deliver care in their own facilities may participate.

Patients may choose from participating physicians and institutions.

Health insurers may not sell health insurance that duplicates the benefits provided under this bill. Insurers may sell benefits that are not medically necessary, such as cosmetic surgery benefits.

The bill sets forth methods to pay institutional providers and health professionals for services. Financial incentives between HMOs and physicians based on utilization are prohibited.

The program is funded: (1) from existing sources of government revenues for health care, (2) by increasing personal income taxes on the top 5% of income earners, (3) by instituting a progressive excise tax on payroll and self-employment income, (4) by instituting a tax on unearned income, and (5) by instituting a tax on stock and bond transactions. Amounts that would have been appropriated for federal public health care programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), are transferred and appropriated to carry out this bill.

The program must give employment transition benefits and first priority in retraining and job placement to individuals whose jobs are eliminated due to reduced clerical and administrative work under this bill.

The Department of Health and Human Services must create a confidential electronic patient record system.

The bill establishes a National Board of Universal Quality and Access to provide advice on quality, access, and affordability.

The Indian Health Service must be integrated into the program after five years. Congress must evaluate the continued independence of Department of Veterans Affairs health programs.

I'm not interested in purity. I'm interested in making things better incrementally because that's the way progress happens.

There's no similar posted Summary of Bernie's bill. (It apparently usually takes a day or two.) On "1A" on NPR this morning there was some discussion about it - apparently Bernie's being cagey about how he would pay for his plan...

I'm going to be really pissed off if Bernie turns this into some sort of purity test that makes the party much less unified than it needs to be this fall, in 2018, and in 2020.

Cheers,
Scott.

Several month ago the last living member of the team that developed Medicare said (I linked it somewhere here - but you find my old posts better than I do ;0) the next step was to give it to children first (like Bernie's bill calls for - immediately for people 18 and under) and then gradually increase the age until everyone was covered. This is exactly the Democratic Party returning to its roots.

It's better than Conyers because it *has more support* and not insignificantly, the front runners for the top of the ticket in 2020. You've got a substantial majority of Americans asking for this, but somehow to Establishment (read: Right Wing) Democrats this is somehow a "purity pony" test. Jesus, if that's the way you feel about it, switch your damned registration already!

Post #420,330 by mmoffitt 9/14/17 10:35:03 AM 9/14/17 10:35:03 AM Reply	Call your Senators. Tell them to support Bernie's bill. bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.
Post #420,332 by Another Scott 9/14/17 11:26:22 AM 9/14/17 11:26:22 AM Reply	Meh. How is it better than Conyers' bill: Introduced in House (01/24/2017) Expanded & Improved Medicare for All Act This bill establishes the Medicare for All Program to provide all individuals residing in the United States and U.S. territories with free health care that includes all medically necessary care, such as primary care and prevention, dietary and nutritional therapies, prescription drugs, emergency care, long-term care, mental health services, dental services, and vision care. Only public or nonprofit institutions may participate. Nonprofit health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that deliver care in their own facilities may participate. Patients may choose from participating physicians and institutions. Health insurers may not sell health insurance that duplicates the benefits provided under this bill. Insurers may sell benefits that are not medically necessary, such as cosmetic surgery benefits. The bill sets forth methods to pay institutional providers and health professionals for services. Financial incentives between HMOs and physicians based on utilization are prohibited. The program is funded: (1) from existing sources of government revenues for health care, (2) by increasing personal income taxes on the top 5% of income earners, (3) by instituting a progressive excise tax on payroll and self-employment income, (4) by instituting a tax on unearned income, and (5) by instituting a tax on stock and bond transactions. Amounts that would have been appropriated for federal public health care programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), are transferred and appropriated to carry out this bill. The program must give employment transition benefits and first priority in retraining and job placement to individuals whose jobs are eliminated due to reduced clerical and administrative work under this bill. The Department of Health and Human Services must create a confidential electronic patient record system. The bill establishes a National Board of Universal Quality and Access to provide advice on quality, access, and affordability. The Indian Health Service must be integrated into the program after five years. Congress must evaluate the continued independence of Department of Veterans Affairs health programs. I'm not interested in purity. I'm interested in making things better incrementally because that's the way progress happens. There's no similar posted Summary of Bernie's bill. (It apparently usually takes a day or two.) On "1A" on NPR this morning there was some discussion about it - apparently Bernie's being cagey about how he would pay for his plan... I'm going to be really pissed off if Bernie turns this into some sort of purity test that makes the party much less unified than it needs to be this fall, in 2018, and in 2020. Cheers, Scott.
Post #420,335 by mmoffitt 9/14/17 9:36:32 PM 9/14/17 9:36:32 PM Reply	It is incremental. Several month ago the last living member of the team that developed Medicare said (I linked it somewhere here - but you find my old posts better than I do ;0) the next step was to give it to children first (like Bernie's bill calls for - immediately for people 18 and under) and then gradually increase the age until everyone was covered. This is exactly the Democratic Party returning to its roots. It's better than Conyers because it has more support and not insignificantly, the front runners for the top of the ticket in 2020. You've got a substantial majority of Americans asking for this, but somehow to Establishment (read: Right Wing) Democrats this is somehow a "purity pony" test. Jesus, if that's the way you feel about it, switch your damned registration already! bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.
Post #420,336 by Another Scott 9/14/17 10:21:06 PM 9/14/17 10:21:06 PM Reply	(I just use Google: "site:forum.iwethey.org x y z")

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