Cuomo was known for passing gun control legislation and comprehensive healthcare reform in the late 90’s. His green energy initiatives also helped us combat climate change. Both Gore and McCain helped to advance it in their respective terms.
Yes, Mariocare of 1996 (as his opponents labelled it but the name stuck; sounds like Super Mario during one of those late 90s attaque ads) was able to lay America's furture healthcare reform foundations when it issued guidelines for private healthcare insurance agencies to follow. Mariocare of the mid 1990s prevented private healthcare insurance from denying people of their coverage due to pre-existing conditions and allowed children to be covered under their parent's insurance until the age of 28. It abolished annual and lifetime caps, standardised premiums regardless of age and conditions amongst private insurance, and provided strict regulations on private co-payments, deductibles, and employer insurance.
A reform package in 1999 also included a ban on co-payments and deductibles for private coverages such as terminal cancer, long-term care, HIV/AIDS, and a whole lot of things.
Gore was able to ride the post-9/11 rally around the flag thing in 2002 and built on that initiative by lowering the age to recieve Medicare public insurance from age 65 down to age 50. Gorecare also expanded Medicaid coverage to everyone below the federal poverty line regardless of marriage status, child status, age, etc.
The post-Great Recession rally for Obama in 2013 also saw him implement the American Healthcare Act of 2013 or Obamacare which furthered lowered the age of Medicare coverage from 50 down to 40 and increased Medicaid coverage to anyone earning under 150% of the federal poverty line. It wasn't truly a Medicare for all initiative due to a number of compromises he had to make and the 2014 midterms really killed his chances for further reforms, but the expansion of public healthcare in the United States allowed for further visionaries to implement Medicare for all some time in the future. In fact, it's becoming very likely in the 2020s due to the gradual pace of healthcare reform. Who knows ?
Republicans are looking for some compromise against Democratic attempts for further expansion. Some are looking for essentially mandating a savings account for every earning American for a percentage of their pay-cheque that would be strictly used for healthcare whilst the government subsidise those who earn less than 150% of the federal poverty line. If unemployed, some sort of Medicaid coverage would work. A mandated savings account for healthcare, as the Republicans stated, promotes personal responsibility of one's health.
In any case, do any of y'all support Republican attempts for mandated savings accounts instead or Democratic attempts for further Medicare expansion ?