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    Doyle McManus: Does Bernie Sanders' single-payer plan have a shot?

    by By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Sep 18, 2017 3 minutes

    Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" plan, unveiled last week, is an ambitious and (to many) enticing idea: a single, government-run health plan with generous benefits for everyone - just like most industrialized countries have enjoyed for decades.

    If only it were feasible in today's United States.

    Alas, Sanders' proposal is a pony without a price tag. The Vermont senator has offered only vague estimates of what his plan would cost and a generic menu of tax increases to pay for it. But the biggest problem is politics. As they purportedly

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