Senator Bernie Sanders recently released his Medicare-For-All Act, which intends to transition our current American health care system to a single-payer system. The Universal Medicare Program (UMP) would remove benefits available currently under Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP and it would end the ACA marketplaces. The article unveils what is in the UMP, ranging from who is covered to what the transition will look like. What are your thoughts on Sanders' plan? Are you in favor of it? Do you oppose it? Do you view a better alternative to his act? If so, what is it?
Source: http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/09/14/unpacking-the-sanders-medicare-for-all-bill/