News broke on Thursday that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will support Democrat-led hearings for so-called Medicare for all legislation. It’s a big win for the increasingly assertive progressives in the Democratic Party; while a universal-Medicare bill was first introduced in 2003, the concept really took off in popularity when Bernie Sanders endorsed it during his 2016 presidential campaign. Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who co-founded the House Medicare for All Caucus in July, told the Washington Post that she expects specific legislation for review will be finished in “the next couple of weeks.” (While Medicare for all is a fungible concept, it appears that what Jayapal is discussing will be a full-on Canada-style single-payer plan. Hoard your Canadian-border elective surgery appointments while you still can!)
from Stories from Slate http://bit.ly/2VA878C
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