The fight over 'Medicare for All' is only beginning

[Uncle Joe]

(CNN)Less than two months after the 2017 Republican push to kill Obamacare perished overnight on the Senate floor, more than a third of the Democratic caucus gathered in a much smaller room on Capitol Hill to take turns making the case for Sen. Bernie Sanders' new "Medicare for All" bill.

The Vermont independent had boosted single-payer health care plans before, but it had been a lonely enterprise. A previous iteration attracted no co-sponsors. This time, though, he was ringed by colleagues -- among them, four of his future Democratic presidential rivals: Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Kamala Harris of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Cory Booker of New Jersey.

The failed GOP coup united Democrats, for a least few heady weeks that summer, across ideological lines. Come 2018, House Republicans would pay dearly for their efforts, as Democrats campaigning on promises to protect and grow government-backed health care swept into the majority.

Their success in the midterm elections ratcheted up a simmering debate within the party over the path forward, with Democratic lawmakers from both chambers churning out piles of often-overlapping new plans. But it is Medicare for All, the most radical of the lot, that continues to roil the party as the 2020 presidential primary enters its stretch run to Iowa.

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/30/politics/medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-kamala-harris-joe-biden-2020/index.html

[Celerity]

1. Medicare for All will never pass under the current electoral map and its underlying substructure

Show me a path, with a RW-gerrymandered, systemically voter-suppressed House, and a Senate with multiple centrists in our Caucus who will NEVER vote for it, where is can be passed.

I mean a detailed layout. Show me the states in the Senate that will be flipped to get to 60 votes, hell, 50 seats that are LW enough to pass it. Explain to me how a House where we have 108 members in centrist caucuses, many in red, reddish, pinkish swing seats, is going to be whipped into voting for it.

It is not going to happen for decades, if ever.