"Who here tonight supports moving the United States toward a single-payer, or 'Medicare for all,' taxpayer-funded health care system?" If Democrats fail to claw back enough seats in next year's midterm elections, the health care conversation will remain in its current state: purely hypothetical. About half of those cosponsors signed on after House Republicans introduced their first hack at Obamacare repeal, the American Health Care Act. "Health care should be a right, it should never be a privilege," Gillibrand said, almost in passing. "This is about understanding, again, that health care should be a right, not a privilege.

Source: CNN September 09, 2017 22:07 UTC