Supporters contend such a system would ensure universal coverage, be simpler and more cost-effective.
By Amy Goldstein Amy Goldstein Reporter covering health-care policy and other social policy issues Email Bio Follow April 30 at 10:08 AM In the opening moments of Congress’s first-ever hearing on Medicare-for-all, House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern said he has long believed that “health care is a right for all, not a privilege for the lucky few.”
A Pew Research Center survey last September found that 60 percent of respondents said it is the government’s responsibility to ensure all Americans have health coverage — more than a decade ago when the country was divided. But the partisan differences are stark, with 49 percent of Democrats but only 12 percent of Republicans agreeing with that idea. Overall, just under one-third said they believe the government should run a single national insurance program.
The House legislation, introduced two months ago by Jayapal, with about 100 co-sponsors, lies at one end of debate among Democrats over whether the best way to improve health care for Americans is to tinker with the Affordable Care Act or to fundamentally restructure the way care is paid for. Among advocates with different views of exactly how Medicare-for-all should be designed, the idea of health care as a right is a unifying thread.
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