evidence: This week’s second round of Presidential-primary debates were yet another marker of just how thoroughly Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All advocacy has transformed the Democratic Party. Perhaps even more notable than the stridency of Sanders’s and Warren’s defenses of the plan were the barbs from moderates who have been forced by widespread enthusiasm for Medicare for All to put forward plans that are well left of the Affordable Care Act. [...] When you look at Sanders’s plan in theory, he continued, "there’s nothing not to like for people. You can go to any doctor and any hospital, you have no deductibles, co-pays, or premiums, and it’s much more comprehensive than any current private insurance plans. There’s absolutely nothing not to like about that. But, you know, that’s how it exists on paper." Ultimately, though, Levitt argues that neither Sanders’s plan nor any of the plans that have been described as more pragmatic and politically feasible stand a chance of being enacted as written.