Here's why creating single-payer health care in America is so hard

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7. American Health Security Act, S. 1782

http://www.healthcare-now.org/index.php?s=Bernie+Sanders+S.+1782

Introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The American Health Security Act of 2013 (S. 1782) provides every American with affordable and comprehensive health care services through the establishment of a national American Health Security Program (the Program) that requires each participating state to set up and administer a state single payer health program. The Program provides universal health care coverage for the comprehensive services required under S. 1782 and incorporates Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and TRICARE (the Department of Defense health care program), but maintains health care programs under the Veterans Affairs Administration. Private health insurance sold by for-profit companies could only exist to provide supplemental coverage.

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5. That was interesting

Good for thought.

Surprised Bernie has never introduced a bill. He gets credit as if he had