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Topic: Public Option

People rally in favor of single-payer healthcare for all Californians as the US Senate prepares to vote on the Senate GOP health care bill, outside the office of California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, June 27, 2017 in South Gate, California. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

The GOP is close to destroying Obamacare

Heather Digby Parton

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks while introducing health care legislation titled the "Medicare for All Act of 2019" with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), during a news conference on Capitol Hill, on April 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Single-payer cheaper than public option

Democratic presidential candidates South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and former Vice President Joe Biden (Scott Olson/Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Biden: Mayor Pete "stole" my health plan

Deval Patrick, Former Governor of Massachusetts (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Deval Patrick joins 2020 race

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From left, Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., entrepreneur Andrew Yang, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke and former Housing Secretary Julian Castro resume their debate Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, after a break during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Dem health care positions become clearer

US Senator Elizabeth Warren (C), Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks with US Senator Bernie Sanders (2nd R), Independent from Vermont, as they discusses Medicare for All legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2017.

The former US presidential hopeful introduced a plan for government-sponsored universal health care, a notion long shunned in America that has newly gained traction among rising-star Democrats. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

What a public option could look like

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Will Medicare for All close hospitals?

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden (Getty/Salon)

Biden unveils plan to expand Obamacare

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A volunteer hands out a poster as Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders was set to address a “Medicare for All” rally in downtown Columbia, S.C. on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018 (AP/Meg Kinnard)

What Medicare for All would look like

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduces the Medicare for All Act of 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The meaning of "Medicare for All" varies

Donald Trump; Joe Biden (Getty/Salon)

Biden suggests impeachment for Trump

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Democrats: Don't play defense!

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Medicaid for all in Nevada?

Matthew Sheffield

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, file photo, the Pfizer flag flies in front of world headquarters in New York. On Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, drugmaker Pfizer said it's buying rights to Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC's portfolio of approved and experimental antibiotic and antifungal pills, a move to boost Pfizer's business in one of its priority areas. The deal is valued in excess of $1.5 billion, including rights to sell the medicines in most countries outside the U.S., royalties and other payments. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Donald Trump vs. Big Pharma

Tom Harkin (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Harkin unloads on Obamacare

Lieberman's big wet kiss for W

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Wal-Mart helping single payer?

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From Obamacare to Big Pharma

Natasha Lennard

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