{"id":84901,"date":"2017-09-25T07:27:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84901"},"modified":"2017-09-24T20:40:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T00:40:29","slug":"gillibrand-announces-support-for-medicare-for-all-legisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84901","title":{"rendered":"Gillibrand announces support for Medicare-for-all legisation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kirsten Gillibrand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bill Includes Major Provision Written by Gillibrand Allowing Every American to Buy into Not-For-Profit Public Option During Transition Period to Medicare-For-All\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/u><\/u>\u00a0<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Senator Gillibrand has been Calling for a Public Option Since Her First Congressional Race in 2006<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

<\/u>U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that she has signed on to the\u00a0Medicare-For-All Act of 2017<\/i>\u00a0as an original cosponsor. The bill, which will be introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders, includes a major provision written by Senator Gillibrand that would allow Americans to buy into a public health insurance plan during the transition period to single-payer.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Gillibrand\u2019s statement is below:<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cHealth care should be a right, not a privilege, so I will be\u00a0joining Senator Bernie Sanders as a cosponsor on his Medicare-for-All legislation.\u00a0And I was especially pleased to work with my colleagues to help write the section of the bill about letting every American buy into a not-for-profit public option, as part of the four-year transition period that leads to single-payer. This would create an affordable, public health care plan that\u2019s available to any American to purchase through the already-existing insurance exchanges.<\/u><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAs I\u2019ve been traveling around New York, the number one thing I keep hearing from New Yorkers is that people are very worried that their health care is still too expensive. Under the health care <\/em>system we have now, too many insurance companies continue to value their profits more than they value the people they are supposed to be helping. It\u2019s time for something better.<\/u><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019ll be fighting with Bernie \u2013 and I hope with all of you \u2013 to pass Medicare-for-All and finally give every American access to affordable, good-quality health care.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Includes Major Provision Written by Gillibrand Allowing Every American to Buy into Not-For-Profit Public Option During Transition Period to Medicare-For-All\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senator Gillibrand has been Calling for a Public Option Since Her First Congressional Race in 2006 U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that she has signed on to the\u00a0Medicare-For-All Act of 2017\u00a0as an original […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-m5n","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gillibrand.jpg?fit=224%2C221&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}