{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/september-19", "September 19", "2017-09-28", "2017", "2017-09", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "September 19\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tThursday, September 28, 2017\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tDemocrats Seek CBO Score on Graham-Cassidy Bill Democrats warned that the Graham-Cassidy health care bill would be very costly for some states and urged the Congressional Budget Office\u00a0 to study more than the measure\u2019s effect on the federal budget. \u201cA comprehensive CBO analysis is essential before Republicans force a hasty, dangerous vote on what is an extreme and destructive repeal bill,\u201d senior congressional Democrats Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Sanders and others, said in a statement, Reuters, Politico, CNBC and The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.\r\nMedicare for All Sanders has launched a single payer healthcare bill to deliver health services to the entire country. Although it stands no chance of passing through Congress, whose two houses are controlled by Republicans, the idea of single payer healthcare has seized the middle ground of the Democratic party, to judge from the names co-sponsoring Sanders\u2019 Medicare for All Act, The BMJ reported.\r\nFighting Back on Republican Bill Liberal groups are planning to join Schumer for a rally outside the Capitol on Tuesday designed to refocus the party\u2019s base on the possibility that repeal could become law after a week when activists had begun transitioning to promoting Sanders single-payer health care proposal, Politico reported.\r\nSanders and Warren Test Democrats\u2019 Left Turn Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are often linked, spoken of in the same breath as if there is scarcely any difference between them. But as Warren and Sanders work to expand their constituencies ahead of possible runs in the Democratic presidential primary in 2020, the differences between them are becoming more marked. How their overlapping audiences sort themselves out could prove revealing about the party they seek to lead, The New York Times reported.\r\nVincent Fort Sanders has endorsed Vincent Fort\u2019s run for mayor of Atlanta. In an email sent to his campaign list, Sanders praised Fort as \u201cunapologetically standing up for middle-class and working-class families, for blacks, whites, and Latinos, for women and the gay community.\u201d In one sense, Sanders is returning a favor. Fort was the highest-ranking African-American lawmaker in the South who endorsed his run for president, The Intercept reported.\r\nCuomo Voices Support for Single Payer In a radio endorsement of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo addressed several national issues, including voicing support for the idea of single-payer health care, an idea pushed by Sanders as \u201cMedicare for all.\u201d \u201cI think that would be a good idea,\u201d he said, The New York Times reported.\r\nJeff Merkley\u2019s Plans Sen. Jeff Merkley hopes to inherit Sanders\u2019 progressive mantle in 2020. But for now, he\u2019s spending his time plotting the resistance against the Trump presidency, Politico reported.\r\nMedicare for All Would Empower Executive Branch\u00a0As Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Warren and Sanders himself ponder their potential presidential campaigns \u2014 and as, hopefully, Democratic-aligned think tanks begin to engage with grassroots single-payer enthusiasm \u2014 it\u2019s worth trying to think in at least a few broad strokes about how this discretion should be used. Or at least broadly speaking about what the goal should be, Vox reported.\r\nSanders Supporters Committed to New Party Approximately 400 people showed up in Washington to attend the People's Convergence Conference from Sept. 8 to 10. The event included a town hall at American University where panelists discussed the future of the progressive movement. Specifically, whether or not Sanders supporters and other progressives should continue to try to change the Democratic Party from within or form a new party, IVN reported.\r\nDems Concerned about Clinton-Sanders Fights Democrats are worried that the fight between former presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Sanders is doing lasting damage to their party. As the bickering between the former rivals grows more intense, Democrats say it needs to end, The Hill reported.\r\nEditorial: Sanders\u2019 Bill Comes Up Short \u201cSanders talks big, but the record shows that in his 25 years in Congress he has failed to deliver on any of his ideological proposals. Expect the same from the independent Massachusetts senator\u2019s ambitious Medicare for all plan. It\u2019s impossible to take his single-payer plan seriously because it fails to address the single biggest issue: how to pay for it,\u201d wrote the Mercury News Editorial Board.\r\nColumn: Medicare-for-All Should Leave Canadians Drooling \u201cEven if the political zeitgeist is changing in the U.S., it is unlikely that Americans would embrace fairer taxes and more government control of health care, despite the obvious benefits. Still, Medicare-for-all should leave us drooling with envy \u2013 because the proposals for reform are long overdue in Canada. Sanders' home is only 80 kilometres from the Canadian border. And Prime Minister Bernie has kind of a nice ring to it,\u201d Andr\u00e9 Picard wrote for The Globe and Mail.\r\nColumn: How to Pay for Medicare for All \u201cIt would still be prudent for Sanders to match some of the new spending with new taxes because as the economy improves, there will be less wiggle room to spend. But he hardly needs to match all of it,\u201d Jeff Spross wrote for The Week.\r\nColumn: Does Sanders\u2019 Bill Have a Shot? \u201cSanders' \u2018Medicare for All\u2019 plan unveiled last week is an ambitious and (to many) enticing idea: a single, government-run health plan with generous benefits for everyone \u2014 just like most industrialized countries have enjoyed for decades. If only it were feasible in today's United States,\u201d Doyle McManus wrote for the Dallas Morning News.\r\nColumn: Sanders Single-Payer Plan Is No Miracle Cure \u201cJust as trade-offs must be made to improve health care, so are other countries struggling with balancing the cost and quality of care and universal access. All Americans should bear one important precept in mind: If the Sanders plan sounds too good to be true, it probably is,\u201d Drs. Lanhee J. Chen and Micah Weinberg wrote for The New York Times.\r\n\u00a0Column: What Sanders Didn\u2019t Say \u201cWhat Sanders did not say was that to truly achieve a vision of single payer coverage, we have to talk about the cost of health care. In fact, the little detail many advocates conveniently ignore within the single payer mantra is that the countries who provide single payer insurance have a budget and spending controls similar to the caps Republicans have been discussing,\u201d David Rubin wrote for The Philadelphia Inquirer.\r\nColumn: A Growing Movement for Single-Payer\u00a0\u201dSen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 Senate Bill 1804, co-sponsored by a third of Senate Democrats, and Rep. John Conyers\u2019 House Resolution 676 by half of House Democrats. What happened? A huge shift toward participatory democracy, with millions of people participating in rewriting what is possible and necessary for their lives,\u201d RoseAnn DeMoro wrote for The San Francisco Chronicle.\u00a0\r\nColumn: Single Payer Risks Jobs \u201cThe problem is that a good portion of what many of these workers do is handle relationships and billing, and keep track of payments from insurance companies\u2014the middle men Bernie Sanders wants to be rid of,\u201d Monica Potts wrote for VICE News.\r\nColumn: Are Health Care Proposals Equally Extreme? \u201cThe choice for Republicans isn\u2019t between this and a better reform. It\u2019s between this or letting Obamacare continue intact, violating all of those repeal-and-replace promises entirely. That\u2019s what\u2019s so silly about the claim that Graham-Cassidy is as \u2018extreme\u2019 as Sanders\u2019 radical and shoddily written proposal (the bill is totally silent on how to pay for any of it),\u201d Jonah Goldberg wrote for Los Angeles Times.\r\nColumn: 2016 Was Not a Fluke \u201cIn retrospect, the alarming possibility of an election-night surprise should have been apparent. Trump never should have won the Republican nomination over a field that included so many talented politicians. And Clinton never should have had to work so hard to win the Democratic nomination over Bernie Sanders, an aging socialist from Vermont who wasn\u2019t even a Democrat until he entered the race,\u201d Eugene Robinson wrote for The Washington Post.\r\nColumn: Treat Voters Like Adults \u201cHarvard University-educated Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) spouts nonsense suggesting that we should cut legal immigration in half, an idea no respectable economist would say is anything but self-destructive. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sounds like President Trump when it comes to trade protectionism, which would impose trade restrictions that are ultimately paid by consumers, in effect a highly regressive tax. Other Democrats who surely know better echo Sanders,\u201d Jennifer Rubin wrote for The Washington Post.\r\nColumn: Understanding Good Economic News \u201cOperationally, the populism is a demand for policies directly targeting those hurt by these long-term trends, in contrast to indirect, often-failed solutions that moderate, establishment politicians sold to working-class families, like trade deals, balanced budgets and financial deregulation. Better than anyone, except maybe Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Trump sniffed this out and effectively exploited it during his campaign,\u201d Jared Bernstein wrote for The Washington Post.\r\nColumn: Does Free Community College Work? \u201cDuring the 2016 election campaign, both Sanders and Hillary Clinton proposed plans that would free Americans from the enormous cost of college, which have put so many students into debt \u2014 and kept upward mobility out of reach. But no legislation has passed on the national stage, and none is expected. In the laboratories of the cities and the states, though, local governments have created or are considering plans to cover tuition or greatly reduce the cost,\u201d Juan Sagaldo wrote for The New York Times.\r\nFact Check: Medical Overhead Costs Experts, particularly on the right, say Sanders\u2019 and Sen. Jeff Merkley\u2019s estimates of Medicare overhead are measuring the wrong thing. Medicare patients are elderly and thus have high costs relative to administrative expenses, especially compared to the under-65 patients in private plans. So just looking at percentage of each dollar spent skews the result. There are serious issues with this talking point, even at Sanders\u2019s more responsible-sounding range of 12 to 18 percent, The Washington Post reported.\r\nLetters: Should the U.S. Go for Single Payer? \u201cEugene Robinson was correct that Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019s (I-Vt.) proposal for a \u201cMedicare for All\u201d health insurance system is the \u201cright thing to do.\u201d It would cover everyone with first-dollar coverage for all medically necessary care. But \u201cMedicare for All\u201d is not socialized medicine, in which the government would own medical facilities and health-care providers would be government employees,\u201d Jay Brockwrote to The Washington Post.\u00a0\r\nLetter: Sanders Ran on His Beliefs \u201cIn Hillary Clinton\u2019s new book, she attempts to disparage Bernie Sanders by stating that he \u2018didn\u2019t get into the race to make sure a Democrat won the White House.\u201d She\u2019s correct. Nor, however, did Bernie run \u2018to disrupt the Democratic Party,\u2019 as Hillary accuses him of doing. He ran for what he believes would help the American people. 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