Bernie Sanders to unveil new Medicare for all bill as the party rallies around Obamacare

The new legislation’s big-name co-sponsors include four of Sanders’ fellow 2020 Democratic contenders — Sens. Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand — all of whom also signed onto an earlier version Sanders put out in 2017.

By unveiling his proposal now, Sanders is effectively doubling down on his signature policy idea and betting that his calls to eliminate private medical insurers will be a winning one with Democratic voters, even as the party rallies around Obamacare amid an escalating court battle instigated by Republicans and backed by President Donald Trump.

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But the move could light a match to a simmering debate within the Democratic Party, pitting Sanders against other candidates, including some of the Senate bill’s co-sponsors, over the best path toward universal coverage. It is a fight Sanders appears to welcome. During the early stages of the 2020 campaign, he has relentlessly attacked private insurers, arguing that their presence is a malign influence on the whole of American health care — a step, both rhetorically and on the policy front, that his opponents have so far refused to match.

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