Pramila Jayapal thinks we can get to Medicare-for-All fast

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The Democratic Party is quickly coalescing around an ambitious Medicare-for-All platform — and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is shaping up to be a major voice in that debate. Jayapal co-chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus and, earlier this week, released a sweeping new plan for single-payer health care in the United States. Her proposal is arguably the most ambitious we’ve seen yet. It envisions a wider set of benefits and a much quicker transition to government-run health care than the plan offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Vox Senior Policy Correspondent Sarah Kliff, who is filling in for Ezra, sat down with Rep. Jayapal to walk through how this Medicare-for-All plan came together. We get into why Rep. Jayapal thinks it’s possible for the United States to move to government-run health care in just two years, and which countries’ health systems she thinks of as good models for where the United States should head. In this conversation, you’ll get a sense of Rep. Jayapal’s theories of governing, how they differ from those of Obama-era Democrats, and why she doesn’t think she needs buy-in from the powerful hospital and insurance lobbies to pass new legislation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:34.0	I am Sarah Cliff, filling in for Ezra Klein.
1:37.0	And today my guest is Pramila J. Appal. She is a second term congresswoman from Seattle.
1:43.0	And she is the lead sponsor of a brand new Medicare for All-Bale. Her bill just came out yesterday.
1:49.0	It has 107 co-sponsors in the house.
1:52.0	And it drops at this moment when Democrats are really coalescing around a single-payer platform.
1:58.0	So we really want to talk to her about how her bill works, what it would do for Americans, the type of pushback she expects from the health care industry.
2:07.0	Some of my favorite parts of this conversation were talking through some of the real nuts and bolts of how do we move to single-payer.
2:15.0	She has what I think is a pretty ambitious plan to transition us to a single-payer system in just two years.
2:22.0	So we talk a little bit about how she chose that timeframe, why she wants to move even faster than Senator Sanders would.
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