While partisan divides remain high, Dr. Glenn Pearson - former president of Physicians for a National Health Program - says the failure of the American Health Care Act presents a unique opportunity for President Donald Trump to make good on campaign promi
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CHEYENNE — With the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act now dead on arrival, the debate over how to fix health care in the U.S. is heating up again.
While partisan divides remain high, Dr. Glenn Pearson - former president of Physicians for a National Health Program - says the failure of the American Health Care Act presents a unique opportunity for President Donald Trump to make good on campaign promises for more coverage and better benefits by moving beyond for-profit models.
“America is the only wealthy country in the world that has a free market, for-profit system,” Pearson points out. “It treats health care as a commodity, like buying a TV. In every other country, health care is a human right.”
Pearson notes the Medicare for All Act - introduced by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan - would provide immediate and comprehensive coverage to all Americans by expanding Medicare, the popular single-payer program already in place for people age 65 and older.