By the fall of 1993, as the various bills emerged (including one proposed by Representative Jim McDermott, of Washington, which is a single-payer proposal and has ninety-one co-sponsors in the House), it was plain that Cooper was gaining some of that ground.
Let a new single-payer proposal be put forth and debated.
The problem with Sanders's single-payer proposal isn't that it is too vague to allow voters to assess its feasibility and its flaws.
The San Francisco Democrat, is moving ahead with his single-payer proposal, a measure he inherited after Senator Sheila Kuehl, Democrat of Santa Monica and a longtime champion of the idea, was forced from office by term limits in 2008.
On Thursday, Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, again expressed his displeasure with a single-payer proposal, calling it at odds with fiscal reality, including a looming $20 billion budget gap in the state.
His single-payer proposal relies heavily on a 6.2percentt payroll tax paid by employers and a 2.2percentt "health care premium" on households.
A national debate over government regulation of health care spending, as part of a single-payer proposal or simply on its own, would likely spark similar arguments.
"The single-payer proposal needs a seat at the table," Massa told the Huffington Post after delivering his remarks to the crowd.
The Urban Institute reviewed Bernie Sanders' single-payer proposal in 2016 and concluded that it would increase government spending by $32 trillion over ten years.
Plans to build such a system by expanding Medicaid or Medicare have been around since the 1940s, and the idea has been relatively popular at various points, but no single-payer proposal has ever come close to passing.
