The support of the Democratic candidates of the Michigan Senate to Medicare for all or a public option endangers rural state hospitals, according to studies.
Representative Haley Stevens (D-MI) recently Joined The race to replace the retired senator Gary Peters (D-MI). The battle for the Michigan Senate seat is a three -way horse race among Stevens; Abdul El-Sayed, former director of the Wayne County Health Department, Michigan; and state senator Mallory McMorroow.
Althegh, candidates have variable qualifications for the position that will soon be open, the three Senate Democrats have requested a radical transformation of American medical care.
Stevens has been a voice proponent of Medicare for all, although she has over the years displaced Your support for a public option. A public option create A government health insurance option to compete against private plans, and Americans under this plan could buy Medicare or other government insurance plan.
“We absolutely need to propose legislation to provide Medicare for all,” said a forum of Democratic candidates in 2018 for the 11th Michigan Congress District:
“But it doesn’t have to be so. And to fix it, we need to break the strangler of those who billionaires and oligarchs such as Donald Trump and Elon Musk have politics and economy. It is not just what we are fighting. saying In April.
“That is why I am struggling to guarantee health insurance as a right to all,” wrote El-Sayed.
McMorrow Favores A public option.
However, the defense of these Senate Democratic candidates can create additional headaches, as many experts have said that I will medicate for all and a public option can force the closure of their rural hospitals, especially for the 35 rural ones in the state of Wolverine. Hospitals.
Hospital administrators have saying That Medicare for all and other health systems for a single payer would close the hospitals, or even reduce services, services and staff. The studies have saying That Medicare for all will cost $ 32 billion in ten years and will require “historical” tax increases to pay it.
A 2019 study conducted by Navigant Consulting base That a government health insurance option, or a public option, would close more than half or rural hospitals in the United States.
Breitbart News reported at that time:
The study base That up to 55 percent of rural hospitals, or 1,037 hospitals in 46 states, could be at risk of closing a public option. The closure of these rural hospitals repise more than 63,000 personnel and 420,000 employees.
Even if rural hospitals should not close as a result of the creation of a public option, the study seeks that the public option could negatively affect the access and quality of care through the elimination of rural hospitals services and the reduction of the clinera and the personal and the species and specifically and specific and specific and specific and specific and specific and specific and specific and specific and specific and specific.
Lauren Crawford Shaver, executive director of the association, said that despite the attempts of many Democrats to portray the public option “as a much more moderated alternative to ‘Medicare for all’, The truth is that the public option would also be harmful, potentially putting the health and well -being of our rural communities at risk. “
Sean Moran is Breitbart News policies reporter. Follow it in x @Seanmoran3.
