Doctors David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are the two leading lights of the single payer movement. As such, they have been harshly critical of Obamneycare.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says she’s for a single payer Medicare for All, everybody in, nobody out health care system.

But she refuses to co-sponsor single payer legislation in the House (HR 676) or to organize to build support for it.