Medicare for all or State control: Health care Plans go to the extremes

 

An article published in the New York Times where former Presidential Candidate Senator Bernie Sanders divulge a single-payer health care system with his proposal 16 other Democratic senators has incorporated his idea. The American people yearned for this kind of aid. While on the other, Republicans senators united together to eradicated the affordable care act. Both parties are working together relentlessly to invent a new health care plan that will thrived beyond Obamacare, which was established by Former President Barack Obama which many highlighted has been intricate for the public, either parties seem to be able to rectify a solution.

Senator Sanders stated that instead of wasting billions of dollars trying to administered an enormous complicated system with multiple insurance plans they should initiate a single - payer  insurance system for all Americans. 60 percent of Democrats have supported a Medicare bill, Senator Sanders did not elaborate how he would pay for this bill nevertheless, he drafted financing options that states higher tax rate for the wealthy which will annihilate tax and out of pocket cost for consumers.

While Republicans Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana

would extract funds from the affordable care act and distributed it to states as grants to allotted to a wide range of services. Lindsey – Cassidy bill would annul the affordable care act where Americans would get coverage and employers would be able to offer it, this would incorporate a drastic decrease in Medicare.

President Trump utterance on the Lindsey – Cassidy idea he acknowledged that they have inaugurated ways to tackle the Obamacare crisis and he will be supporting the plan.

Senator Sanders mentioned that under the present Medicare people who are 65 and older and some individuals with disabilities will have access to the services, in the next four years Medicare would be available to children from 18 to adulthood and adult 55 to 64 this would suppress the health care system separating and diminished the role of health insurance companies from employers. This news would be quite unsettling for Insurance companies this means that the tremendous amount of profit they relished in would be no more. 


Work Cited

Pear, Robert, “Medicare for all or State Control: Health Care Plans Go to Extremes”.
www.newyorktimes.com September 13, 2017. Web September 14, 2017.