Forbes November 25, 2019
Medicare for All is struggling to gain traction at the national level. Some progressives are hoping that left-leaning states will instead be able to lead the way.
This month, California Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna introduced the “State-Based Universal Health Care Act,” a bill that would let states take all the healthcare money they get from the federal government—for Medicare, Medicaid, veterans care, Obamacare, and the like—as a block grant they could use to help pay for a single-payer system.
“This bill allows states with bold leadership to establish their own successful universal health care programs in order to prove how viable our movement is on the national level,” Rep. Khanna said.
The plan comes with a host of problems. For...
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