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In reply to the discussion: Urban Institute analysis of Sanders Single Payer Plan: May 2016 [View all]Orsino
(37,428 posts)...have nothing to do with who has the power to do what with the bill after it is presented. He introduced it, and now we are at the stage where co-sponsors can jump on. It's already being fiddled with in private. If it ever makes it to committee, it will be with the support of many other senators, and if it makes it out of committee, then it'll bear more resemblance to whatever its final form is. But the process of becoming law is much more lengthy and complicated. It's going to need people from both parties willing to vote for it and a House bill, then a reconciliation, and then a president may have to be sweet-talked.
Credit for authoring the bill is irrelevant to getting some law out of it. Anyone's reputation for not compromising is also irrelevant. Many, many fingerprints will get on this thing, or it won't become law.