Medicare for all Act of 2019

=Medicare for All Act of 2019= June 20, 2019

Sec. 1: Elimination of Redundant Programs - Abolish Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, the Indian Health Service, the Veterans Health Administration, and Tricare.

Sec. 2: Medicare for All - A national single-payer health insurance system, titled Medicare, free at the point of service, is established.

- US citizens, US residents, and US military personnel will be eligible for both emergency and non-emergency care free at the point of service. Others will be eligible for free emergency care, but will be required to pay a small copay for non-emergency care. Immigrants coming into the US for over 5 months who are not otherwise eligible will pay a Immigration Medicare Surcharge of $300 at the time of their visa application. (This will not apply to tourist visas).

- Medicare will cover all hospital visits, primary care, medical devices, lab services, maternity care, prescription drugs, vision and dental benefits, and abortion services for the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. (Medicare will cover abortion services for pregnancies after the 20 week mark in cases of rape, incest, or risk to the mother.)

- Medicare will be available to all citizens, however, citizens may choose to opt-into private health insurance as primary or secondary insurance.

- The Department of Health and Human Services will pay for a percentage of the total cost of prescription drugs, the cap to be paid by the individual will be $25.00.

- Medicare will negotiate drug prices. Hence, corporations will receive a two month window to do so.

- Private hospitals will accept Medicare plans.

Sec. 3: Medicare Hospital Service - All current public hospitals will be reorganised under a new Medicare Hospital Service (MHS).

- All current private hospitals will be able to remain as private institutions.

- All current hospitals, public and private, will be transferred to non-profits.

- MHS hospitals will be tax-exempt.

Sec. 4: Cost

- Section 1. will save at least $1.3 trillion the first year.

- The Medicare For All program will cost $1.2 trillion the first year.

- The savings from Sec. 4, Point 1 ($100 billion), will pay for Sec. 2, Point 5.