Bernie Sanders Knows His Medicare-For-All Bill Won't Pass. That's Not The Point
The Vermont senator will soon introduce a new bill for single-payer health care. The goal is mostly about pushing the Democratic Party to the left, and party leaders have tried avoiding the proposal.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill next month to create a government-run, single-payer health care system. And he knows it's going to fail.
"Look, I have no illusions that under a Republican Senate, and a very right-wing House, and an extremely right-wing President of the United States, that suddenly we're going to see a Medicare-for-all, single-payer passed," he said recently, sitting in his Senate office. "You're not going to see it. That's obvious."
The point of the bill, Sanders says, is to force
