With Medicare For all we pay less and get more.

The U.S. spends nearly $5 trillion a year on health care, more than any country in the world. We are already paying more than what many economists estimate Medicare For All would cost—just through a system that delivers less.

The people who profit from our current system will tell you that Medicare For All costs too much. Well, guess what? You are already paying it—with insurance premiums, copays, deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. 

Nearly half of adults carry medical debt, and 1 in 4 families struggle to pay medical bills. Insurance premiums have gone through the roof, with families paying $25,000 per year just to get insurance. Employers are pushing more and more of the costs onto employees, which means health care costs more and there’s less and less for wages. 

Meanwhile, the giant, for-profit private insurance companies are raking in tens of billions of dollars in profit, denying your care and even using AI models to deny what your doctor says you need. 

Medicare For All ends that financial stress and puts patients over profits. You’d have comprehensive health care from the day you’re born to the day you die. You would no longer have to guess what’s covered, fight insurance denials, or refuse treatment because you can’t afford it. Coverage is comprehensive, automatic, and free at the point of service.

The way we do it? We improve traditional Medicare by adding all the care you need, including reproductive and long-term care, as well as dental, vision and hearing. We fix the reimbursement rates in Medicare so doctors can get compensated fairly. And we give it to everyone instead of just to those over 65. 

Medicare For All would still use the same doctors and hospitals as today, taking the profit motive out of health care through public financing—similar to how traditional Medicare works today. 

Instead of sending your money to profit-first private insurance companies, you contribute to a public system. Taxes will increase for many Americans to help pay for this, but what you pay in taxes is offset by not having to pay for health insurance premiums, copays, or out-of-pocket costs for health care or prescription drugs. 

For most families, these contributions are less than what they already pay today.