Medicare for all is the best option

Current bills aimed at correcting health insurance issues

are analyzed deeply wrt the specific issues that they might correct, and how they address fundamental issues with incentives 

M4A is superior on all metrics 

Dimension	Three bills	Full AELP agenda	Medicare for All

Extraction / self-dealing rents	Eliminated at source (separation)	Eliminated + enforced	Payer-side removed; provider/pharma persist
Drug & provider prices	~7% drug cut from pharmacy divestiture	Medicare-rate caps system-wide; patent-abuse bans	Monopsony price-setting system-wide
Denial-driven cost & harm	No change ($36B UM tax remains)	UM ban trims it; enforcement-dependent	Profit-motivated denial removed structurally
Risk selection / cost-dumping	No change — pooling untouched	No change; public option itself exposed	Single universal pool eliminates it
Administrative overhead	Marginal	Partial — fragmentation floor remains	Collapses toward 1–4% peer floor
Coverage / uninsured (8%)	No change	Public-option optional	Universal by design
Net fiscal character	Lowers prices; federal outlay ~flat	Large private + public savings; outlay ~flat	Big federal outlay rise; lower totalnational spend in most studies ANALYST