Elizabeth Warren on Healthcare

Elizabeth Warren believes health care is a basic human right and no one should go broke to pay a medical bill. Our aim should be to cover the most people at the lowest cost. In March 2018, Warren introduced a new health care bill called the Consumer Health Insurance Protection Act, which would work to make insurance within the Obamacare system more affordable and would protect users from premium hikes.Elizabeth Warren believes health care is a basic human right and no one should go broke to pay a medical bill. Our aim should be to cover the most people at the lowest cost. In March 2018, Warren introduced a new health care bill called the Consumer Health Insurance Protection Act, which would work to make insurance within the Obamacare system more affordable and would protect users from premium hikes. The Huffington Post reported that her plan would limit insurance premiums to no more than 8.5 percent of a person's income. In January 2019, during the 2018–19 United States federal government shutdown, Warren was one of thirty-four senators to sign a letter to Commissioner of Food and Drugs Scott Gottlieb recognizing the efforts of the FDA to address the effect of the government shutdown on the public health and employees while remaining alarmed "that the continued shutdown will result in increasingly harmful effects on the agency’s employees and the safety and security of the nation’s food and medical products." However, Elizabeth Warren also supports Medicare for All, a form of single-payer health insurance. Warren states that health care is a basic human right, and she will fight for basic human rights. Studies show that health care costs will decrease under Medicare for All. Families are going broke today from medical bills, and Medicare for All will ensure that co-pays, deductibles, emergency room visits, and prescription drugs don’t drown families with sky-high medical expenses. In February 2019, Warren was one of twenty-three Democratic senators to introduce the State Public Option Act, a bill that would authorize states to form a Medicaid buy-in program for all residents and thereby grant all denizens of the state the ability to buy into a state-driven Medicaid health insurance plan if they wished. Brian Schatz, a bill cosponsor, said the legislation would "unlock each state’s Medicaid program to anyone who wants it, giving people a high-quality, low-cost public health insurance option" and that its goal was "to make sure that every single American has comprehensive health care coverage."
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