03/26/2026
What is Medicare for all? Medicare For All would both expand traditional Medicare to cover all Americans, and change the structure of the program, to cover more services and eliminate all deductibles and co-payments. So the Medicare everyone would be getting would differ in crucial ways from the Medicare older people get now.
The idea of Medicare for all is suggestive of the health care system in Canada. There, doctors and hospitals remain private, but everyone gets insurance from the government. No one there is asked to pay any money when seeing a doctor. The Canadian health care system is even called Medicare.
Read this great write up by the New York Times Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/upshot/medicare-for-all-health-terms-sanders.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.jI3t.WxVJCbGhGcec&smid=url-share
