Bernie Is Right. We Should Immediately Expand and Improve Medicare.
By: Michael Lighty; Jacobin We’ve reached a critical point in the campaign to win Medicare for All. For the first time in a decade, the decisive health care question is on the table in Congress: Should we continue with the commercial health insurance system, or should we improve and expand Medicare? Should we make the expanded subsidies for purchasing commercial
Drugmakers prepare for the unusual: A defeat in Washington
By: Susannah Luthi & Sarah Owermohle; Politico The pharmaceutical industry is preparingto take a hit in Democrats’ next major legislative package — and the long-untouchable powerhouse is racing to contain the damage. Democratic lawmakers are weighing whether to include drug pricing measures that could extract tens of billions of dollars from the industry, or potentially more, to help pay for
Opinion: An Unusually Optimistic Conversation with Bernie Sanders
By: Ezra Klein; The New York Times Bernie Sanders didn’t win the 2020 election. But he may have won its aftermath. If you look back at Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders’s careers, the $1.9 trillion stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan, looks a lot like the proposals Sanders has fought for forever, without much of the compromise or concerns that
Bernie Sanders making plans to push prescription drug reforms through reconciliation
By: Ryan Nobles; CNN Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont and the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, is set to unveil a trio of bills designed to lower the cost of prescription drugs and give American consumers access to the competitive global drug market. On Tuesday, Sanders will introduce the three bills ahead of a hearing in a Senate
Bernie Sanders Is at the Apex of His Power
By: Jeet Heer; The Nation Although twice defeated in his bids to become Democratic presidential nominee, Bernie Sanders has achieved a level of political power that is second only to presidents’. The successful passage of a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, more than twice as large and more far reaching than the stimulus bill passed in 2009, is a triumph not
A new act for Bernie Sanders: Power broker
By: Evan Halper; Los Angeles Times As control of the Senate teetered early this year, Republicans warned of a menace they feared would be unleashed on America if they lost power: Bernie Sanders would call the shots over the federal budget. The reality for them may be even worse than they anticipated. The longtime outsider, irritant of the Democratic and Republican establishments and cantankerous gadfly
