Democrats pushed their “Medicare for All” legislation in a hearing Tuesday before the House Rules Committee, saying it would provide health care efficiently to all Americans.
“Full room at the FIRST EVER hearing on #MedicareForAll today,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., tweeted Tuesday. “A tremendous step in ensuring every single person in this country has quality and affordable health care.”
Jayapal is the House sponsor of Medicare for All legislation, while Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is the sponsor of a similar bill in the Senate.
Sanders’ Medicare for All Act of 2019 could cost $32 trillion over 10 years and rob 181 million Americans of their private health coverage, asserted Robert Moffit, a senior fellow in domestic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation, in a recent op-ed.
Here are four takeaways from the hearing.
1. Veterans Called Satisfied With Government Care
Dr. Farzon Nahvi, an emergency room physician at NYU Langone Health, testified that military veterans are satisfied with their health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs and argued that bodes well for switching to universal, government-run health care.
“I work at a private hospital, a public hospital, and I also work at the VA as well, and that has also been my experience, too,” Nahvi said. “Our VA system is wonderful, we provide excellent care, and I have never had a patient leave against medical advice because they were worried about the cost of their treatment.”
According to a 2018 report by CNBC, however, the VA has been plagued with problems for years, including “reports of excessive and contradictory spending, allegations of inadequate health care, a massive backlog of benefits claims, and a top leadership position that nobody can seem to hold down.”
Nahvi argued that “if it’s good enough for our men and […]
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