How The Progressive Takeover Could Happen

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14. John Conyers introduced his Medicare for All bill in every Congress beginning in 2001

until he retired in 2017 (with the exception of the 111th Congress in which he deferred to President Obama), but despite the fact that he had dozens of House co-sponsors, Conyers was never able to find a senator willing to write a matching companion Senate bill.

Similarly, in the 1990s, a major obstacle to the adoption of President Clinton's plan were "my way or the highway" politicians who never bothered to do anything concrete in the many years that followed.