Medicare for All Act of 2025 Introduced to US Congress

Apr 30

On April 29th, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell (MI-06) and Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2025 to the US Congress, alongside a crowd of healthcare workers, providers, and nurses, as well as other healthcare and workforce advocates. The legislation has 104 original cosponsors in the House and 16 original cosponsors in the Senate.

Via a press release from Sanders’ website:

In America today, despite spending twice as much per person on health care as other wealthy nations, more than 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, one out of every four Americans cannot afford their prescription drugs, over half a million people go bankrupt due to medically-related debt, and more than 60,000 die because they cannot afford to go to a doctor.
Under this legislation, Medicare would provide comprehensive health care to every American with no premiums, no co-payments and no deductibles. It would also expand Medicare to include dental, hearing, and vision care, and it would give every American the freedom to choose their doctors without endless paperwork or fighting their insurance company. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that Medicare for All would save our health care system $650 billion a year. Further, researchers at Yale University have estimated that Medicare for All would save 68,000 lives a year.

Rep. Jayapal adds:

This legislation is urgent at a moment where 85 million people in America are either uninsured or underinsured, so even though they have health insurance they cannot get health care due to high costs. In addition, as pandemic-era programs have ended, an additional 15 million will lose health insurance this year.