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'Medicare For All' Has Caught Like Wildfire Among Progressive Democrats. So What Exactly Do We Know About It?
Since Bernie Sanders made 鈥淢edicare-for-all鈥 a central plank of his wildfire presidential campaign, support for a once-fringe idea has exploded. Democratic senators with eyes on the 2020 presidential contest 鈥 including Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris 鈥 have conspicuously lined up as co-sponsors of the 鈥淢edicare-for-all鈥 legislation that Sanders introduced last year; a similar proposal in the House has 123 co-sponsors. All of those politicians are Democrats, but among voters, support appears to cross the aisle: A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that 鈥淢edicare-for-all鈥 was supported by 70 percent of American adults, including a slight majority of Republicans. (Demko, 9/12)