Morning Distribution for Wednesday, March 9, 2022

A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Morning Distribution]( Wednesday, March 9, 2022 Your daily briefing from FiveThirtyEight --------------------------------------------------------------- The Morning Story [A woman wearing a face mask with Medicare for All written on it]( [More States Are Proposing Single-Payer Health Care. Why Aren’t They Succeeding?]( By [Jean Yi]( The Democratic presidential primary might feel like a lifetime ago, but one [important storyline in that race]( was health care — specifically single-payer health care, or the policy that the government should offer universal health insurance to everyone in the country. The nomination of now-President Biden, [who opposed single-payer health care during the primary]( has put single-payer health care on the backburner nationally. But that hasn’t stopped the issue from impacting state legislators, who have introduced more single-payer health care bills in the last few years than ever before. Health care policy researchers Erin C. Fuse Brown and Elizabeth McCuskey [tracked the number of unique single-payer bills]( introduced in state legislatures across the country from 2010 to 2019, finding a sharp uptick in bills introduced since 2017. During each of those three years, at least 10 single-payer proposals were introduced, according to Brown and McCuskey’s research, for the first time since 2013. In total, state legislators proposed more single-payer bills from 2017 to 2019 than in the previous seven years combined. And for 2021, we’ve identified 10 single-payer bills that legislators introduced across the country, from liberal states like [California]( and [Massachusetts]( to more conservative ones including [Iowa]( and [Ohio](. What do all these proposals have in common? They’ve all universally failed. In fact, Vermont, the only state that managed to pass single-payer health care in 2011, ended up [shelving its plan three years later](. [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Listen [Play]( [Politics Podcast: What Americans Want The U.S. To Do Next On Ukraine]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 47 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.