While Republicans have been busy tearing the Affordable Care Act to shreds, the Center for American Progress has been working on a proposal to go in the opposite direction.
U.S. News and the Associated Press report that the liberal policy group is releasing its proposal "Medicare Extra for All," which builds on Medicare to do just that—offering energized Democrats another way to pursue expansion of health care coverage.
It's not the single-payer approach advocated by Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT, and it keeps, rather than discards, the roles played by employer-provided health care and the insurance industry. But it is more ambitious than just that, providing employers and individuals a choice but not an obligation to join Medicare Extra.
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Marlene Satter
Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.
