The United States National Health Care Act

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or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act (H.R. 676) is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Representative John Conyers (D-MI). The bill had 49 cosponsors in 2015.

The bill was first introduced in 2003, when it had 25 cosponsors, and has been reintroduced in each Congress since.

During the 2009 health care debates over the bill that became the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, H.R. 676 was expected to be debated and voted upon by the House in September 2009, but was never debated.

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

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1. ...which raises the question: what did Conyers then (and Sanders now) do to try to get it passed?

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2. It also depends political will and a clear eyed view of the full range

of consequences, a timeline, and lessons learned about what the ACA has been up against.