{"id":2703883,"date":"2026-11-11T08:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T13:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwhen-democrats-say-medicare-for-all-they-mean-medicare-for-none\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T08:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T13:23:23","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwhen-democrats-say-medicare-for-all-they-mean-medicare-for-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwhen-democrats-say-medicare-for-all-they-mean-medicare-for-none\/","title":{"rendered":"When Dems Say &#8216;Medicare For All,&#8217; They Mean Medicare For None"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwhen-democrats-say-medicare-for-all-they-mean-medicare-for-none%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2703883&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After Democrats\u2019 wins, Bernie Sanders pushed \u201cMedicare for All,\u201d but his bill would end current Medicare, drain its trust funds into a new program, and eliminate existing benefits. Critics call it a bait-and-switch, noting it lacks means-testing and could use seniors\u2019 money to subsidize wealthy individuals. Analysts say teh plan is more generous, costlier, and fundamentally different from today\u2019s Medicare. Opponents argue Democrats have a history of repurposing Medicare funds for other priorities, and conservatives should spotlight these risks and oppose abolishing the program.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Following Democrats\u2019 election victories last Tuesday, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/6201914-sanders-calls-medicare-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called on senators<\/a> to pass so-called \u201cMedicare for All\u201d legislation next year when Democrats take control of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Except that his bill wouldn\u2019t expand Medicare \u2014 it would end it. The truth about Sanders\u2019 bill speaks volumes about how the left views facts as mere trifling inconveniences and treats seniors as pawns in its push for a European-style welfare state.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Medicare for None<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to take my word for it. Just look at Section 901(a)(1) on pages 100-101 of the so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/119\/bills\/s1506\/BILLS-119s1506is.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Medicare for All Act<\/a>\u201d that Sanders introduced last April:<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Title XVIII of the Social Security Act refers to the current Medicare program, meaning the bill ends the existing Medicare benefit when the new program takes over. Section 701(d) on page 96 of the bill includes a related, important detail:<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This language liquidates every single dollar from the Medicare Trust Funds \u2014 one of which covers hospital spending (Part A) and one of which covers outpatient spending (Parts B and D) \u2014 and deposits those dollars in a fund to finance Sanders\u2019 new socialized medicine scheme, which also happens to be called \u201cMedicare.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Sanders\u2019 \u2018Big Lie\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On one level, this tactic amounts to a bait-and-switch or a game of three-card monte: a con game in which Sanders creates whatever system he would like, calls it \u201cMedicare,\u201d and assumes the public won\u2019t discover the difference. Howard Gleckman, an analyst at the left-leaning Urban Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/howardgleckman\/2019\/07\/31\/medicare-for-all-has-nothing-to-do-with-medicare-call-it-something-else\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote an article in 2019<\/a> titled \u201cMedicare for All Has Nothing to Do with Medicare. Call It Something Else\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What Sanders is proposing is not Medicare for all. It is far more generous \u2014 and more expensive. It would be funded much differently. And its relationship with private insurance would be nothing like today\u2019s Medicare. Sanders would, in fact, replace the current Medicare program. \u2026 You can call it [i.e., the Sanders bill] many things \u2014 from ambitious to unrealistic. But please don\u2019t call it Medicare.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Neither Sanders nor anyone else on the left has changed the messaging on the legislation in the years since. This raises an obvious question: If Sanders can\u2019t even level with voters on the name of his bill, what else about a single-payer system of socialized medicine is he hiding from them?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Left\u2019s Slush Fund<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Sanders\u2019 proposal to abolish Medicare represents far more than just a political bait-and-switch. It also reveals how Democrats view Medicare not as a sacred bond to help our nation\u2019s elderly and individuals with disabilities, but rather as a slush fund to be raided to finance their next big-government scheme.<\/p>\n<p>After all, why else would Sanders propose plundering dollars specifically allocated for seniors to finance health coverage for Big Tech billionaires? One of many ironies about his legislation: While the current Medicare program <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.ssa.gov\/poms.nsf\/lnx\/0601101001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">imposes means testing<\/a>, forcing wealthy seniors to pay a far greater share of their Part B and Part D premiums, Sanders\u2019 legislation includes no means-testing provision. Rather than making people like Mark Zuckerberg pay their \u201cfair share\u201d of their health care costs, Sanders would give them \u201cfree\u201d care, funded in part by trust-fund dollars previously allocated toward seniors.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, Democrats frequently treat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/democrats-use-medicare-as-a-piggy-bank-11616624520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Medicare as a piggy bank<\/a>, a slush fund to finance other spending programs. They raided it once, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2012\/08\/14\/romneys-right-obamacare-cuts-medicare-by-716-billion-heres-how\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hundreds of billions of dollars<\/a>, to fund Obamacare in 2010, then <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/19\/democrats-plan-to-snatch-medicare-dollars-from-seniors-to-subsidize-their-rich-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raided it again<\/a> a dozen years later to fund an expansion of Obamacare subsidies. In 2021, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., even proposed raiding Medicare to pay for an <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/544591-pelosi-drug-pricing-measure-under-discussion-for-infrastructure-package\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">infrastructure package<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Little wonder then that Democrats would want to abolish the program entirely. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-and-democrats-have-truly-worked-to-beat-medicare-gaffe-debate-abolition-ab0d64c0?mod=opinion_lead_pos6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> at the time of Joe Biden\u2019s infamous \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/i3eYmc1AkMs?t=25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we finally beat Medicare<\/a>\u201d comment during the 2024 presidential debate that, at one point or another, virtually all major Democrats have sponsored legislation that would abolish Medicare. The list runs from Biden himself to Kamala Harris, Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and California\u2019s Gov.-elect Xavier Becerra. Even incoming Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/senate-bill\/1506\/cosponsors?hl=s1506&#038;s=1&#038;r=1&#038;overview=closed#tabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">co-sponsored<\/a> Sanders\u2019 bill, illustrating that he too wants to abolish Medicare.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Upcoming Stakes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Unfortunately, conservatives, often hesitant to discuss health care in depth, have for years failed to note how readily Democrats have worked to undermine Medicare. But the debate Democrats seem intent on forcing in the coming Congress gives conservatives another opportunity to demonstrate the stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Should our nation abandon a commitment to seniors to help fund \u201cfree\u201d health care for Big Tech executives and billionaires? That\u2019s one of many policy changes the Sanders bill would make. Conservatives can develop a winning message on this and other elements of Democrats\u2019 dangerous health care agenda, but only if they are willing to engage.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Chris Jacobs is founder and CEO of Juniper Research Group and author of the book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1645720020\">The Case Against Single Payer<\/a>.&#8221; He is on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisjacobsHC\">@chrisjacobsHC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanders&#8217; plan would end Medicare, not save it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":2703884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Bernie-Sanders.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,87744,74197,87743,69388],"class_list":["post-2703883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-health-care-reform-2","tag-healthcare-policy-2","tag-medicare-for-all-2","tag-political-commentary-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Bernie-Sanders.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703886,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703883\/revisions\/2703886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2703884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}