The National Republican Senatorial Committee distorted U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes' health care policies. Barnes supports Medicare for All, which would provide health care for millions more people — not fewer.
, which has not gotten a vote, includes: Hospital and emergency services; prescriptions; primary and preventive services; mental health and substance abuse treatment; lab services; reproductive care, including abortion; pediatrics; dental and vision services; and home- and long-term services. There would be no out-of-pocket expenses, insurance premiums, deductibles, or co-payments.
So, how does all of that square with the idea that Barnes’ position amounts to"stripping health care away from millions"? "I do not understand the logic of this claim," Barbara Wolfe, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of economics, population health sciences, and public affairs, said in an email to PolitiFact Wisconsin."Medicare for all would extend coverage to millions. Depending on the details of the actual plan it would likely resemble coverage in other Western Democracies, where all citizens, and sometimes residents, are covered.
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