Sanders says he'll pitch 'Medicare for all' when the GOP health-care plan fails

"Medicare for all" will be on the Senate agenda after Republicans fail to repeal and replace ObamaCare, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper.

"We are going to introduce it literally as soon as we're through with this debate. I don't want to confuse the two issues," Sanders explained in his State of the Union appearance. "Medicare for all [is] simply an expansion of Medicare, so it's not just for seniors, but for everybody."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.