evidence: Sen. Bernie Sanders has been pushing a single-payer health care system for decades. It’s the centerpiece of his vision for a more democratic socialist America. There are several such proposals for a single-payer system, but what’s below is from the 100-page draft bill most recently introduced, with tweaks, by Sanders in 2019. [...] In Sanders’ proposal, everyone who is a US resident, including undocumented immigrants, gets coverage. That would be a likely point of contention with this plan. There is a prohibition on traveling to the US for free medical care. [...] This is a massive new program and paying for it isn’t going to be easy. Sanders has plenty of ideas, however. For starters, everything that goes into the Medicare trust fund would now go into this new, larger fund. So would money that now goes toward the health care of veterans and pays states to provide Medicaid.