One by one, Democrats are moving on from the Affordable Care Act. And increasingly, they're embracing a full transition to a single payer system as an answer.
Bernie Sanders has been touting a Medicare-for-all plan for decades, of course, and gave the issue new prominence in last year's presidential primaries. But he's gaining company. His single-payer plan is cosponsored by Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), among several other leading figures in the national party. The odds that the party's 2020 presidential nominee will be one of these people, and will thus support single-payer, are quite high.
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