Bernie Sanders Medicare Proposal

The baby-boomer generation is aging and adding more beneficiaries’ at an increasing rate than ever before and is estimated to impact the federal deficit by over 17% by 2020. Many other countries have National Healthcare that provides better care at a much lower cost. Medicare was the motivation for a universal healthcare plan and a program for the U.S. could have a positive impact. (Starr, 2011).

President Obama’s pledge to pay for the program by taxing the rich, who is anyone that makes more than $1 million a year (which would include President Obama) and will make for “a marketplace that provides choice and competition” (Conniff, 2009). He also proposes that reform is about every American who has ever feared losing their coverage if they become too sick, lose their jobs or even change their jobs. It’s realizing that the biggest force behind our deficit is the growing costs for Medicare and Medicaid programs.”

With rising healthcare costs being distributed predominantly on workers or their companies, the economic responsibility is placed on the very people who need it the least: the job creators. If the economic responsibility of healthcare costs was shifted to the government, the private sector job creators could have more revenue to stimulate the economy with additional jobs, better wages, and improved worker benefits. The best way to shift this cost obligation is via a single-payer healthcare system. A single-payer would make sure all citizens would be covered for all medical services, including doctor, hospital, preventive, long-term care, mental health, reproductive health care, dental, vision, prescription drug, and medical supply costs.

While campaigning for the 2016 presidential election, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont proposed that America should adopt a single-payer health care system. In Sanders’s plan, there would have been only one insurance program that would have covered everyone in the United States; in effect, other programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and especially private insurance would be discontinued (Holahan, 2016, p. 1). If Sanders’s proposal were to be carried out, it would be a drastic change from the current system which predominately comprises of private insurance and hospitals under limited government regulations. The debate reopened on whether or not a single-payer system would be an effective system health care system or economically viable. Due to the contrasting nature of current health care system in the United States, policymakers should approach proposals of single-payer health care systems with caution and an understanding of the benefits and the drawbacks by examining the successes and failures of real-world systems.

Long before the 1990s when Ms. Clinton fought for a Universal Healthcare system in America, the issue of America’s healthcare had been a political quandary. The enactment of the Republican administration’s Health Management Organization Act of 1973 was a weapon meant to address that crisis, yet, it did little to fix the problem. While the liberal Democrats are fighting for Universal Healthcare coverage for all Americans, the conservative Republicans are fighting to maintain the current private health insurance, however, with some revamping of the system, which preserves the capitalistic element of the status quo. The reason for the two opposing views stems from their differences in political ideologies, which theoretically is like pitting socialism against capitalism. While the liberal Democrats’ endorsement of Universal Healthcare system is socialistic in practice, the conservative Republicans’ fight to retain the private or market based plan is unarguably in support of their pro-capitalism stance. The truth, however, is that, though almost every American believes in capitalism, yet, almost none would vote to disband the Medicare and the Medicaid programs, both of which are socialistic. In that light, the argument of a pro-capitalist nation is negated, as we do already have a socialized healthcare program for the seniors and the poor. Extending that concept to include

What we the Liberty Saints party plan to do is make a universal healthcare plan that would cover everything that one would need in medical care. We plan to make it available and affordable to any American citizens who needs it and we plan to tax the

Democrat and Republican Platforms share different yet similar views on government funded healthcare, Democrats are all for universal healthcare while the Republican Platform disagrees. Since the Democrats helped pass the Affordable Care Act (ACA), in 2010 commonly referred to as Obamacare, over 20 million American's gained healthcare coverage and was ensured that they wasn’t denied coverage for a pre-existing condition (Our platform, 2017, pg.31). Also, under the Affordable Care Act Americans could access public coverage through a public option, and those that are 55 years old could opt in to Medicare (Our Platform, 2017, para.2). Medicare and Medicaid were the two programs that were passed under the Affordable Care Act. Medicare covers

The future of healthcare resides in a single-payer system. Our country already has roughly fifty years of experience in this area under the Medicare program. By extending Medicare to all citizens we could ensure that all have the health coverage they need and that “everyone would make a financial contribution to Medicare for All” (Seidman, 2015). A single-payer system would also give the government the necessary leverage to negotiate better prices for care and prescription

In Bernie Sander’s “Medicare for All” speech, he begins identifying his audience saying “all of us stand before you…to proclaim that healthcare is a right not a privilege” meaning the audience is Americans and tries to appeal with the audience using Aristotle’s three proofs: ethos, logos, and pathos. On Sander’s topic on universal healthcare, he connects with the audience's interest and designed a strategy where those who work for their familes healthcare, can now work for what they love to do because healthcare would become affordable which would attract audiences for a bill being cost effective. Sander’s does adjust the topic by calling attention on the statistics for continuing the healthcare that we have now where we would be spending “49

U.S. health care reform is currently one of the most heavily discussed topics in health discourse and politics. After former President Clinton’s failed attempt at health care reform in the mid-1990s, the Bush administration showed no serious efforts at achieving universal health coverage for the millions of uninsured Americans. With Barack Obama as the current U.S. President, health care reform is once again a top priority. President Obama has made a promise to “provide affordable, comprehensive, and portable health coverage for all Americans…” by the end of his first term (Barackobama.com). The heated debate between the two major political parties over health care reform revolves around how to pay for it and more importantly, whether it

When it comes to our health, a good healthcare plan is a very important subject for all individuals. Some even argue that it is a basic right to have one. Bernie Sanders stated, “Healthcare must be recognized as a right, not a privilege. Every man, woman, and child in our country should be able to access the health care they need regardless of their income…” (“Issues: Medicare for All”). However, reality tells us a whole different story. America is one of the most developed countries in the world with some of the best medical care. Yet, how can the people enjoy the benefits when it is almost unaffordable to most. People are afraid to fall sick just because they are afraid of how much it would cost. However, sometimes a doctor or hospital visit is unavoidable. In most cases, it comes at a great price, especially to the middle class and the elderly. Wealthy individuals are likely to reap the benefits of having an expensive healthcare plan, while the rest may suffer from the unimaginable cost of treatments, or even worse, live a risky life without insurance. An effective solution to this problem would be a Universal Healthcare System. This would ensure that all people have equal and affordable health coverage, centralized healthcare records for all individuals which will help easy diagnosis by doctors and reduce the intensive labor costs of medical billing. Moreover, it may boost the economy by freeing business from providing expensive healthcare benefits to workers.

Due to the upcoming presidential election, the two major political parties, and their candidates, have been focusing on the primary problems that the nation will face. Chief among those problems is the future of Medicare, the national health-insurance plan. Medicare was enacted in 1965, under the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, in order to provide health insurance for retired citizens and the disabled (Ryan). The Medicare program covers most people aged 65 or older, as well as handicapped people who enroll in the program, and consists of two health plans: a hospital insurance plan (part A) and a medical insurance plan (part B) (Marmor 22). Before Medicare, many Americans didn't have health

The major purpose of this work is to completely discuss about the Medicare Part D which will set an influence on the different interest groups and all the entities of government which have been set under the policy changing process. There has been a complete set environment which involved and shape the policy to make efforts as to how all the groups of the stakeholders are influences with the Medical Part D. All the legislation and the specific strategies are made in correspondence to the politics. (Powell et al., 2015). The Medicare Part D is also said to be Medicare prescription drug benefit which directs to setting the United States Federal government programs to work on the subsidizing costs of all the drugs of prescription which insure premiums for the Medicare in US. There is a great enactment which has been based on Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. In December 2003, there are major Medicare Prescriptions which have become into the Improvement and Modernisation Act to become a proper law. There has been a great benefit from the drugs which provides an entire coverage to all the disables and the elderly people who could not have the ability to manage it.

Clinton’s new affordable health care was released September 23, 2015. It indicated those families who are ineligible for Medicare could receive $5000 tax credit or higher for out-of-pocket health care expenses("2016 presidential candidates on healthcare.” par 4). Bernie Sanders stated publicly:” I want to end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.”("2016 presidential candidates on healthcare.” par 10) Jeb Bush established his own plan on October 13, 2015. His plan is actually really similar to Hillary Clinton’s. He also wants to provide the people with more tax credits for out-of-pocket expenses. He claimed his plan will give the state more power to regulate and even increasing the funding for Medicaid("2016 presidential candidates on healthcare.” par 17). It may looks like both parties have the similar ideas on Medicare, in fact there are some differences. The republican party’s plans for reforming Medicare by creating more competitions in the market to lower the cost of heath care and increasing the waiting period within the heath care program("Republican Views on Health Care.” par 2). The republican party strongly believes in a government central

This section outlines the proposed amendments to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Section 2713-2714. First and foremost, to achieve the goals outlined in by the current policy is difficult, when the vast majority of Americans with chronic illness are unable to afford the health care services needed to manage their conditions. Therefore, this proposal stipulates expanding the bronze package to ensure that low income individuals have access to the services needed to manage their conditions. An alternative to the expansion of the bronze plan is re-evaluating the federally established poverty guideline. The poverty guideline should be re-evaluated to reduce the disparities that exist as a result of the current guideline.