Ronald Brownstein agrees with me both that single payer is coming back as a cause for Democrats and that it is politically perilous for them. I’d put more emphasis on the likely unpopularity, in practice, of telling literally hundreds of millions of people that the health insurance plans they have and mostly like are now illegal. Brownstein emphasizes the cost, which is enormous:

Single-payer proposals very quickly run into sticker shock. Before the 2020 race, the Urban Institute forecast that........

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