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<p>For several decades, the progressive economic agenda has centered around enacting single-payer health care (often dubbed “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrats-spent-2020-campaign-talking-healthcare-so-what-happened-to-medicare-for-all">Medicare For All</a>”). <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-vogel-wants-a-new-generation-of-dems-in-congressstarting-with-him">Progressive candidates</a>, think tanks, lobbying organizations, and grassroots activists have campaigned, organized, and rallied for it.</p>
<p>Thus, the failure of single-payer to gain broader traction has been blamed on corporate greed, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-right-wing-megadonor-barre-seid-has-sparked-huge-controversy-before">right-wing billionaires</a>, public ignorance, and a corrupt political system.</p>
<p>But there is a more basic reason single-payer has not come close to enactment: No implementable legislative proposal even exists.</p>
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For several decades, the progressive economic agenda has centered around enacting single-payer health care (often dubbed “Medicare For All”). Progressive candidates, think tanks, lobbying organizations, and grassroots activists have campaigned, organized, and rallied for it.
Thus, the failure of single-payer to gain broader traction has been blamed on corporate greed, right-wing billionaires, public ignorance, and a corrupt political system.
But there is a more basic reason single-payer has not come close to enactment: No implementable legislative proposal even exists.
