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Single-Payer Advocates Hit Capitol With New Sense Of Reality
Advocates for a single-payer Medicare for all health system are fanning out across Capitol Hill this week, lobbying members of Congress.
Advocates for a single-payer “Medicare for all” health system are fanning out across Capitol Hill this week, lobbying members of Congress.
But years of mostly fruitless struggles — and watching the intense opposition to the much less sweeping Affordable Care Act – appears to have left them with a much more clear-eyed view of what it will take for them to accomplish their goal.
“This is tough stuff,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., told a roundtable of advocates he convened in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. “Single-payer health care bills — it ain’t going to take place here in Washington. I suspect it’s going to take place, as it did in Canada, with a state [Saskatchewan] going forward. I hope it will be my state.”
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Source: Kaiser Health News
