Midterm Wave Sets a Course for ‘Medicare for All’ Fight

Voter frustration with healthcare costs helped fuel the Democrats’ midterm takeover of Congress. But Democratic control doesn’t mean “Medicare for All” will follow, as some hoped.

By: Kate Wells

Outlets: KFF Health News

Published: November 6, 2026

Words: 1,291

Last Updated: 3 days, 14 hours ago

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LANSING, Mich. — Fifteen years working as an emergency room nurse has convinced Kim Bogan that the only way to fix the American healthcare system is to tear it down and start over.

Her patients arriving for triage are sicker than ever. They can’t afford many of the prescriptions they get in the ER. And sometimes when patients die, she wonders if she could have saved them had she not been caring for five or …

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