Medicare for All used to be a progressive pipe dream, but top health industry lobbies are working to make sure it never sees the light of the day
With so much lobbying power often aimed in opposite directions, big changes to America's health care system are already few and far between. But when it came to Medicare for All — a proposal that would upset the business model of every part of the health care industry at once — Kahn realized a more unified front was needed. He would have to broker a ceasefire.
Medicare for All’s legislative prospects remain uncertain. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, top, has expressed doubts about it. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, bottom left, who led an unsuccessful effort in the Senate to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, is unlikely to bring it up in the Republican-led Senate. | Win McNamee/Getty Images AP Photo/Cliff Owen
But the hypothesis at the group's core — that without organized pushback, Medicare for All represented a real and imminent threat to survival — was never in dispute. It's since expanded at breakneck speed, signing up the influential American Hospital Association and some of the nation's largest individual hospital systems; biotech trade group BIO; the health care executive roundtable Healthcare Leadership Council; and a series of trade associations representing smaller slices of the industry like insurance brokers and financial advisers, generic medicine manufacturers and radiologists.
Measured by sheer size and the financial resources backing it, that would make the Partnership the most formidable source of focused resistance to 2020 Democrats' health plans outside of the Trump reelection campaign. Images from one of the “Harry and Louse” TV ads that helped defeat the Clinton administration’s national health care reform proposal in 1993. | YouTube
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