On 5/12/2022, Sen. Bernie Sanders held a Senate Budget Committee hearing about Medicare for All, giving an impassioned speech on one of his signature issues. Sen. Lindsay Graham skeptical when it comes to whether Democrats will ever sign onto Medicare

“I’m hoping that after this speech that you will be putting your idea up for a vote,” Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said at the Senate Budget Committee hearing. “And if not, why not? Because most of your colleagues would rather jump out the window if they had to vote on this.”

In prepared remarks, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said millions of Americans understand that the current healthcare system is “dysfunctional, extraordinarily wasteful and expensive, and cruel.” Sanders is among the measure’s most ardent supporters in Congress. It would overhaul the nation’s health insurance system, eliminating the private insurance sector and placing every American onto a single federal insurer.

“Mr. Chairman, this is a debate worth having. I applaud your passion. I don’t agree with your idea,” Graham said. “But here’s what I would suggest to you and others who believe in this idea: Let’s vote on it.”

Graham said, “Medicare for All really becomes Medicare for Nobody over time. You have control of the Senate floor. I welcome a vote on Medicare for All on the floor of the United States Senate this year… If not, why not? Because most of your Democrat colleagues would jump out the window if they had to vote on this.”

“The private health care that you have today as an American would go away… everyone in America goes into a single payer system run by the federal government.” “Medicare is an important program. I’d like to save it. I don’t want to sunset it… I sure as hell don’t want to invite hundreds of millions of people onto the Medicare system that haven’t paid a dime.”

“We’re talking about the most massive increase in spending known to the United States. How would that affect inflation? Not well. It absolutely would crush an economy that needs some help.”

“One-size-fits-all for health care could cost as much as $40 trillion over the first ten years…The economic consequences to this plan for the American taxpayer would be unimaginable.”

“There are better ways. Let’s save Medicare as it exists. But for people under 65, let’s try to get better quality by getting the health care dollars outside of Medicare in the hands of people closer to the patient. Let’s get money down to the states, get flexibility and inventing new preventive health care systems. And give consumers the choice they don’t have today.”

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Graham: most Dems ‘jump out the window’ if had to vote on Medicare for All, One-size-fits-all. Invite 100 millions onto Medicare system that haven’t paid a dime.