United against ‘Trumpcare’, Democrats divided on next steps: It’s not just the GOP that’s divided on health care.

Legislation Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to introduce soon highlights a wedge issue for Democrats and is emerging as the Republican retort to their own problems with repealing and replacing Obamacare.

While defending the Affordable Care Act, the Vermont independent says the way forward in the long term is a “Medicare-for-all” single-payer system, a federally-administered program that would eliminate the role of private insurers in basic health care coverage.

“Medicare-for-all…will be saving middle class families substantial sums of money, and it will be guaranteeing health care to every man, woman, and child in this country,” said Sanders, who is part of the Senate Democratic leadership team, Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union.

Single-payer health coverage is becoming increasingly popular with Democrats. But such proposals go further than the Democratic Party platform’s call for universal health care — which could still include private insurers — and beyond the Obamacare fixes most other Democratic Party leaders are discussing as they focus on fighting the deeply unpopular GOP plans, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates will increase the number of uninsured Americans by more than 20 million people.

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United against ‘Trumpcare’, Democrats divided on next steps: It’s not just the GOP that’s divided on health care.Legislation Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to introduce soon highlights a wedge issue for Democrats and is emerging as the Republican retort to their own problems with repealing and replacing Obamacare.While defending the Affordable Care Act, the Vermont independent says the way forward in the long term is a “Medicare-for-all” single-payer system, a federally-administered program that would eliminate the role of private insurers in basic health care coverage.“Medicare-for-all…will be saving middle class families substantial sums of money, and it will be guaranteeing health care to every man, woman, and child in this country,” said Sanders, who is part of the Senate Democratic leadership team, Sunday on