Medicare for All: Leaving No One Behind

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released this plan in January 2016 for a single-payer health care system in the United States and called for the U.S. to build upon the success of the PPACA. According to this plan, the annual cost would be $1.38 trillion and would be fully paid for from several revenue streams, including a 6.2 percent income-based health care premium levied on employers ($630 billion per year). Households would contribute with an income-based premium of 2.2 percent per year ($210 billion per year . . .