Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks while introducing health care legislation titled the "Medicare for All Act of 2019" with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 9, 2019. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
It needs pointing out that Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All plan bears little resemblance to Medicare. The Vermont senator undoubtedly exploits the word “Medicare” to obscure the radicalness of his single-payer proposal. Medicare, after all, is very popular.
