Sanders Revives Medicare for All Bill Amid Party Standstill (1)

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) revived his Medicare for All legislation, arguing that shifting to a single-payer system could cure much of what ails US health care.

Sanders Thursday reintroduced a bill that would end most private health insurance and replace it with a sweeping, government-run program that would pay for care. Rising health services and medicine costs have put many Americans into debt, and broad public health insurance would solve many problems, Sanders said.

“This dysfunctional health care system cannot be rationally defended,” he said at a Senate Budget Committee hearing Thursday.

Democrats, however, are still debating how to extend ...