Last December, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) introduced a single payer bill (S. 1782).

Three months later, it has no co-sponsors.

That would be zero. None. Zilch.

The decision by 25 states to reject the expansion of Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act will result in between 7,115 and 17,104 more deaths than had all states opted in, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School and the City University of New York.

The study, the first detailed estimate of the health impact of the states’ decision to reject the Medicaid expansion (with state-by-state data as well), is being published today at the Health Affairs Blog.