Forbes October 14, 2018
Bruce Japsen

Inside the headquarters of the nation’s health insurance lobbies, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and America’s Health Insurance Plans, an increasing amount of time and money is being spent preparing for the coming debates in Washington and on the presidential campaign trail over “Medicare for All.”

The effort to bring popular coverage for seniors 65 and over to all Americans has long been an elusive goal of progressives and some Democrats in Congress, who almost a decade ago settled for expansion of taxpayer-funded health benefits via private insurers when President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010.

While Democrats and progressives praise Obama and the ACA for bringing coverage to more than 20 million Americans, they...

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