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In that direction. to the degree certainly the base of the party has which is why president obama was cautious. >> sanders has offered single-payer legislation before. and as previously, the budget math inclined toward vagueness. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, the democratic leaders in the house and senate respectively, declined to endorse the standards measure with pelosi telling "the washington post" it won't be a litmus test for democrats in 2018. republicans were eager to portray it as such. >> i think we are going to start seeing democrat primaries in 2018. you have this litmus test now ...

Democrats. >> we now have 16 cosponsors on this legislation. >> one-third of the senate democratic caucus has already signed onto the single-payer health care bill senator bernie sanders unveiled wednesday including most of the parties potential presidential aspirants. >> health care is a basic human right and we fight for basic human rights. >> this is the fight for our nation to live up to our ideals. >> it's a better return on the investment for the american taxpayer. >> what a difference from 2010 when president obama pushed the affordable character through congress along party lines witho...

Out basically accepting obamacare saying they want to fix it by sending much of it to the states. that's what we saw in the gram- gram-cassidy news conference today. then you see a lot of the democratic party coming out in favor of what hillary clinton rejected, single-payer, including elizabeth warren, kamala harris, cory booker, a number of the party starts and possible 2020 candidates. >> bret: a lot of republicans are weighing in and molly, here is senator cory gardner saying this is interesting politically. >> there's a fascination with republican primaries but i think we're going to star...

Grief. >> democrats believe that health care is a right for all and there are many different bills out there. there are many good ones. >> bret: single-payer is one of them. senator bernie sanders introducing. quinnipiac of replacing the current health care system with single bear. that idea, 38%. back a little ways, a question saying as the federal government responsible to say all americans have health care coverage and that was overwhelming. now you have democrats signing on, 16 of them supporting bernie sanders' single-payer plans. what does this mean? back with the panel. >> i think it sh...

United front behind single-payer. they never have. if this idea came back during the obamacare debate, it didn't happen. if the democrats went in another direction. there's a sense of popularity around this idea if you frame it is medicare because medicare is a very popular program and people like that program more on it. i won't speak for everybody but most people who like the programmer on it. if you take a kernel of that idea, expanding medicare for people who are 60, 65, i think maybe that's an idea that the democratic party could unify behind, it may be some to get on board. if of course ...