A lobbying alliance is spending tens of millions of dollars to prevent Medicare for All legislation and maintain the private health insurance status quo.
Bernie Sanders singled out insurance and pharmaceutical industry “front group” Partnership for America’s Health Care Future in a new editorial for Buzzfeed calling on supporters of Medicare for All legislation to “refuse to back down.”
Slides from a PAHCF presentation leaked to The Intercept outline two primary objectives for the alliance: “change the national conversation around single payer/Medicare for All” and “minimize the potential for this option in health care from becoming part of a national political party’s platform in 2020.”
“Big pharma, health insurers and for-profit hospitals are now using our health care premiums to publicly attack legislators who defend our right to health care,” Benjamin Day, director of the pro-single-payer organization Healthcare-NOW!, told Truthout in an article cited by Sanders. Sanders characterized PAHCF ads as “deceptive.” Currently drafted Medicare for All legislation would dramatically expand patient choice by eliminating private insurance networks. Medicare for All legislation would also eliminate copays and deductibles, further empowering the one in four Americans who have refused medical care because of high costs .
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