<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/single-payer-advocates-in-congress-double-down-with-medicare-for-all-caucus/" class="">https://truthout.org/articles/single-payer-advocates-in-congress-double-down-with-medicare-for-all-caucus/</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-size: 20.25px; line-height: 2; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" class="">When Medicare was <span style="box-sizing: inherit;" class=""><a href="https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=99" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; color: rgb(156, 22, 44); cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" class="">created 53 years ago</a></span> this month, it was over the objections of Ronald Reagan. On behalf of the American Medical Association, <span style="box-sizing: inherit;" class=""><a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreagansocializedmedicine.htm" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; color: rgb(156, 22, 44); cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" class="">Reagan warned</a></span> that should Medicare become law, it would lead to “a mechanism for national health insurance capable of indefinite expansion in every direction until it includes the entire population.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-size: 20.25px; line-height: 2; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; clear: both; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" class="">More than five decades of frustration later, advocates are still fighting to make Reagan’s “nightmare” of universal health care a reality. The recent <span style="box-sizing: inherit;" class=""><a href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/d3epbm/exclusive-over-60-house-democrats-are-forming-a-medicare-for-all-caucus" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; color: rgb(156, 22, 44); cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" class="">formation of the Medicare for All Caucus</a></span> by House progressives could prove to be an important development in this pursuit, according to members and advocates who introduced the new caucus at a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RepJayapal/videos/2041908505819728/" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; color: rgb(156, 22, 44); cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" class="">press conference</a> on July 19.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-size: 20.25px; line-height: 2; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" class="">“We are united today by a common conviction that health care is a human right,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal during the launch. “One of the best ways to ensure health care for all is to use the system that already exists for millions of seniors [in] Medicare.” … continues: https://truthout.org/articles/single-payer-advocates-in-congress-double-down-with-medicare-for-all-caucus/</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>