Health care and jobs will be the focus of Conyers, Sanders town hall in Detroit
In an opinion piece in
It's a bill that Conyers has introduced every year since 2003.
"The data is clear that simply expanding Medicare to all Americans to create a single-payer system would be far more efficient," he said when he reintroduced the bill in January.
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The program would be funded by a payroll tax on employers and employees, a financial transaction tax, and higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans. But getting the issue through a Republican-controlled
The political colleagues also will touch on a companion youth jobs bills they've introduced in the
It will be Sanders' first visit to
He is expected to get an enthusiastic reception. During the presidential primary last year, Sanders drew thousands of enthusiastic supporters to rallies in
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