NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (December 6, 2022) – New Jerseyans largely support expanding Medicare to provide basic health care coverage to every U.S. resident, regardless of age or employment status, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton Poll.
The latest poll finds:
- 71% of New Jersey residents support to some degree (51 percent “strongly,” 20 “somewhat”) expanding Medicare to provide coverage to every U.S. resident, regardless of age or employment status.
- Ninety-three percent of residents who support program expansion would support New Jersey moving ahead with its own program to provide basic health care coverage to every state resident (68 percent “strongly,” 25 “somewhat”) if it could be accomplished sooner instead of waiting for the federal government to expand the program.
- Support for expansion is consistent across race and ethnicity, gender, income level, education, and age.
NJUHC PROPOSAL FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL NJ
Overview
- Don’t create a new health care plan
- We want ALL New Jersey residents to be covered by traditional Medicare (parts A, B and D)
- Just take what we have, the national Medicare plan as it stands now, and make it THE PRIMARY health plan for every New Jersey resident until a single payer Medicare for All plan is adopted nationwide
Highlights of legislation that could move us toward Medicare for All in NJ
- Requests that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) enroll every NJ resident in Medicare, cradle to grave, as part of a new demonstration program
- Does not allow any other health care plan sold in New Jersey to offer coverage included in Medicare
- Directs CMS to act under the waiver provisions of the Affordable Care Act, or under the experimentation provisions built into Medicare legislation, without need for an act of Congress
