Turning aside risk, Democrats rally to Bernie Sanders' single-payer health plan
Like passengers leaping for a departing train, leading Democrats are scrambling to support single-payer health insurance, a system that would represent a huge expansion of government control over health care and which the party's presidential nominee declared last year would "never, ever" come to pass.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., whose support for universal coverage was central to his 2016 presidential campaign, on Wednesday unveiled the latest version of his plan to expand Medicare to cover all Americans.
After a parade of testimonials about the failures of the nation's existing health care system, Sanders cast his measure as a moral and economic issue.
"Today we begin the long and difficult struggle to end the international disgrace of the United States of America, our great nation, being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all of our people," Sanders said.
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