Pelosi, Congressional Representative for over 90% of San Francisco’s voters, has never seen fit to co-sponsor federal legislation embracing the goal of universal health care that city voters backed in 1994.
will be taking the lead in introducing this year’s Medicare for All Act in their respective branches of Congress. Now if you don’t live in the city and therefore don’t know any better, you might expect a San Francisco Representative to be all over this legislation. After all, it’s been 29 years since San Francisco first voted its support of universal health insurance when it backed the California Health Security Act, as 1994's Proposition 186 was properly known.
But in all of the intervening years, Pelosi, Congressional Representative for over 90% of San Francisco’s voters, has never seen fit to co-sponsor federal legislation embracing the same goal. For some time the justification advanced for Pelosi’s continual failure to promote the position of her constituents on one of the most crucial issues to come before Congress was her leadership role.
Since Pelosi is now the first Speaker Emerita, her office could conceivably adopt the position that Speakers Emerita simply don’t sponsor legislation, but ignoring the issue entirely seems the more likely path. The real underlying question here is just how closely Pelosi’s views hew to those of the American Hospital Association, the organization that loves her so well. In 2019 the AHA told the House Budget Committee that “‘Medicare for All’ is not the solution...
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