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TwilightZone

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5. Yes and no. He intro'd a bill in 2017 that was a parallel bill to one intro'd by Conyers in 2003.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 04:19 PM

Mar 2020

John Conyers introduced a Medicare for All bill in the House 2003, which gained sponsors over the next 15 years.

Sanders introduced a parallel bill in the Senate in 2017, 14 years later after Conyers' bill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Health_Care_Act

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