Congressional Leaders on the Left Just Relaunched Their Government Health Care Takeover
28th May 2025
The Left is nothing if not persistent.
While Congress has been exhaustively debating the tax cut and spending details of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” Senator Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s independent socialist, and his House Democratic allies are again honing their comprehensive health policy agenda: the abolition of all Americans’ private and employer-sponsored health insurance and the creation of a “single payer” system of government-run national health insurance.
Along with Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), Sanders recently reintroduced the Senate and House versions of the “Medicare for All Act of 2025.” The legislation has attracted 16 cosponsors in the Senate and 104 cosponsors in the House—almost half of the entire House Democratic caucus.
As noted in analyses of earlier versions of the House and Senate legislation, it would create a government monopoly over the financing and delivery of American health care. Under this system, one would have no alternative to the government health plan, creating a “No Choice, No Exit” scenario.