January
Early in 2016, President Obama blocked a Republican-led measure that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act. Just a month later, the House failed to override the president's veto. Speaker Paul Ryan still called the effort a success, saying, “We have now shown there is a clear path to full repeal without 60 votes in the Senate.”
Bernie Sanders, vying for the Democrat presidential nomination, revealed his “Medicare for all” plan, which would have built on the ACA to distribute a single-payer health system across the country. The call for single payer echoed throughout 2016, with Colorado adding a ballot measure to its November election, hopeful its passage would encourage other states to follow suit; however, Amendment 69 was defeated during the Nov. 8 elections.
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