Al Franken Co-Sponsors Sanders' Medicare for All Bill

Today I am announcing that I am cosponsoring Sen. Bernie Sanders’ "Medicare for All" bill.
Like Paul Wellstone, I’ve always believed that health care is a right for all Americans—not a privilege—and that every person in our country deserves access to the care they need. Establishing a single-payer system would be one way to achieve universal coverage, and Senator Sanders’ "Medicare for All" bill lays down an important marker to help us reach that goal. This bill is aspirational, and I’m hopeful that it can serve as a starting point for where we need to go as a country. In the short term, however, I strongly believe we must pursue bipartisan policies that improve our current health care system for all Americans—and that’s exactly what we’re doing right now in the Senate Health Committee, on which both Senator Sanders and I sit.