Commentary: Medicare for All is back on the political front burner. A Democratic majority could pass it

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Set us as preferred “Medicare for All,” that fundamental reform of America’s fractured healthcare system long championed by Sen.Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and other progressives, had its heyday about 10 years ago.That’s when Sanders and Rep.

John Conyers (D-Mich.) lined up 140 co-sponsors for a bill that, alas, died in committee, just like the version that Conyers first introduced in 2003.Versions of the same bill have been introduced in every Congress since then, right up through 2025.

None got out of committee.But what seemed over that time span to look like a quixotic effort has lately gained a new foothold in Democratic politics.In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, a physician and the Democratic candidate for the U.S.

Senate, has placed Medicare for All at the forefront of his campaign.Americans are increasingly fed up with private health insurers.— Health insurance reformer Wendell PotterDiscontent with our current healthcare system, which costs twice as much per capita as some other developed countries for materially worse outcomes, is not only a Democratic issue.

The hard-right former Rep.Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) declared last year on X that she’d like to “see Health Insurance CEOs ...

getting chewed out on live television.”Other Republicans, including Sens.Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep.

Mark Green (R-Tenn.), have picked up the cudgel against health insurers.Commentary on economics and more from a Pulitzer Prize winner.

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