The Case Against the Public Option
We have the capacity to wage a transformative health care fight in the days ahead. Medicare for All or bust.

A doctor examines a patient at a Bay Pines, FL hospital in 1967. Chris Warren / Flickr
The saga of Trumpcare may finally be behind us.
The wretched bill would have wrenched coverage from tens of millions, and — by many estimates — cost tens of thousands of lives a year. Liberals and leftists rightly united in opposition against it. And though Republicans are reportedly still planning on holding an Obamacare repeal vote next week, their agenda seems to have basically crumbled under the weight of mass opposition.
But if the Right’s health care agenda is dead, what is the next move for the Left?