Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren: The health care dynamic duo

On Medicare-for-all, it's those two against the world

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
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On the first night of the second round of Democratic president debates Tuesday, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren dominated the conversation about health care, which took up most of the debate's first hour. Whether they planned it that way or not, it ended up being the two of them defending their Medicare-for-all proposal against the rest of the candidates.

It shows how much left-wing advocacy — especially from the Sanders camp — has reshaped the terrain of American politics in a very short time.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.