Reply #39: Introducing a bill and getting one enacted into law are 2 VERY different things. Again, please

[No Elephants]

see my Reply # 30 as to HR 676 and the more recent history of this bill and Liberation's Reply #18 as to improving bills after Democrats pass them as "a first step."

But, no, that's not what Grayson's bill proposes. HR 676, which technically is still pending, I believe (though in reality probably a dead duck) proposes medicare for all, aka single payer. Grayson's bill proposes medicare as an option.

And, if you still want to believe that Grayson's bill has a realistic chance of becoming law, again, I wish that hope the best of luck. I don't think it is realistic, but I wish it luck. I'd like nothing more. However, after over a year of working as hard as I could, I won't be writing any more emails or making any more calls.

eta: Hr 676 btw, had about 100 co-sponsors, none of whom bothered to get it as far as the CBO or fight for it once Obama got into office. And a doctor got arrested and then questioned by the Secret Service for trying to recommend it to Obama a few months ago.

They're in Washington three days a week. They may as well file something they think will impress the folks back home, whether it has a realistic chance of ever becoming law or not.