Single-payer healthcare gets backing from Medicare’s “creator”

Single-payer healthcare gets backing from Medicare’s “creator”
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WASHINGTON - The last surviving "creator" of the original Medicare proposal of 1965 is enthusiastically endorsing Medicare for all - also known as single-payer government-run universal national health care... ...Fine urged the crowd to lobby to expand Medicare. "There would be no Medicare without the labor movement," he told the group, which included members and retirees from the Communications Workers, The Newspaper Guild, the Letter Carriers, the Amalgamated Transit Union, the Steelworkers (SOAR), the Teachers, and the Postal Workers.

Max Fine, the focus of the above article is the last surviving member of an early-1960s commission President John F. Kennedy appointed to write the Medicare draft. Congress passed Medicare in 1965 and President Lyndon Johnson signed it. Medicare for everyone is certainly heads and shoulders above the current welfare for insurance companies that still leaves millions of Americans without access to healthcare.

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