Members of Congress on Wednesday unveiled two major efforts to overhaul the current Affordable Care Act health insurance rules.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who caucuses with the Democrats, launched a version of the Medicare for All bill, which would create a completely government-run system for providing health insurance in the United States.
Sanders introduced the single-payer health finance bill with support from 16 Democratic cosponsors: Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin; Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut; Cory Booker of New Jersey; Al Franken of Minnesota; Kristen Gillibrand of New York; Kamala Harris of California; Martin Heinrich of New Mexico; Mazie Hirono of Hawaii; Patrick Leahy of Vermont; Edward Markey of Massachusetts; Jeff Merkley of Oregon; Brain Schatz of Hawaii; Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire; Tom Udall of New Mexico; Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
