[1]NNU - Medicare for All!



A new billionaire-backed think tank is trying to divert momentum away from
Medicare for All and into a package of reforms that will not come anywhere
close to solving the problems of our for-profit health care system.

The Searchlight Institute was founded to fight back against the
progressive movement and push out-of-touch, centrist policies.

They recently released their “Making Health Care More Available” plan with
the shiny promise of free primary care and very little under the surface.
The People’s Policy Project outlines just how badly this “alternative”
falls short of Medicare for All — let us break it down for you.

Free primary care for all sounds good on paper, but it would only cover up
to 1.8% of total out-of-pocket health care spending at most — drops in the
bucket compared to what we need.^1

Another proposal of theirs is to restore Biden-era ACA subsidies, but only
in states that have expanded Medicaid. That only covers 2.4% of the U.S.
population and leaves millions of people in ten states with higher prices
than everyone else.^2

People’s Policy Project summarized this package perfectly:

“[The Searchlight plan] is clearly inferior to a Medicare for All type
system on all the relevant policy axes. The point of this proposal seems
to have been to generate a flashy headline about free primary care for
all, which it did, but that headline policy amounts to almost nothing and
the overall grab bag of proposals is internally contradictory, cruel in
places, and simply not up to the task at hand.”

Searchlight would rather nibble around the edges than fight for true
systemic reform that would guarantee health care for everyone. Their goal
is to stifle the popular demand for Medicare for All and maintain the
status quo in Washington by pushing half-measures that won't fully solve
our deeply broken system.

Instead of several small fixes that could be stymied at every turn, we’re
demanding the whole thing: Medicare for All and nothing less!

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Let’s make it absolutely clear to every senator that their constituents
want and deserve Medicare for All — not some half-baked alternative.

In solidarity,

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All

 

Sources:

1 - [ [link removed] ]People’s Policy Project
2 - Ibid

 




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