Doyle McManus: Does Bernie Sanders' single-payer plan have a shot?
by By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Sep 18, 2017
3 minutes
Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" plan, unveiled last week, is an ambitious and (to many) enticing idea: a single, government-run health plan with generous benefits for everyone - just like most industrialized countries have enjoyed for decades.
If only it were feasible in today's United States.
Alas, Sanders' proposal is a pony without a price tag. The Vermont senator has offered only vague estimates of what his plan would cost and a generic menu of tax increases to pay for it. But the biggest problem is politics. As they purportedly
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