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More than 100 House Democrats to unveil ‘battle-ready’ Medicare-for-all plan as 2020 election looms

February 26, 2019 at 6:34 p.m. EST
A plan by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, would move every American onto one government insurer in two years. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)

More than 100 House Democrats plan to unveil a new “Medicare-for-all” plan Wednesday to provide government health insurance to every American, according to a copy of the bill provided to The Washington Post, as a number of Democratic-leading presidential candidates for 2020 feud over the party’s health-care platform.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, is expected to release legislation Wednesday that incorporates key policy demands of single-payer activists, aiming to overhaul the U.S. health-care system even faster and more dramatically than legislation proposed in 2017 by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).