Bernie Sanders's Medicare-for-all plan, explained (from Vox )

The Vermont Senator’s plan has lots of details about what single-payer would cover. It has less information on how to pay for it.

By Sarah Kliffsarah@vox.com Apr 10, 2019, 11:00am EDT

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will reintroduce his plan Wednesday morning to transition the United States to a single-payer health care system, one where a single government-run plan provides insurance coverage to all Americans.

The Sanders plan envisions a future in which all Americans have health coverage and pay nothing out of pocket when they visit the doctor. His plan, the Medicare for All Act, describes a benefit package that is more generous than what other single-payer countries, like Canada, currently offer their residents and includes new income taxes on both employees and employers.

Sanders is reintroducing his plan at a moment when both American voters and Democratic legislators are increasingly backing a government-run health care system. Sanders will introduce his bill today with 14 cosponsors including presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).

The Sanders plan goes into great detail about the type of coverage Americans would receive. But it provides significantly less detail about how it would finance such a generous health care system. Instead, Sanders released a five-page paper that included a list of financing options, such as a new tax on “extreme wealth.”

More at: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/10/18304448/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all