In rebuttal, former Vice President Joe Biden asserted that "Obamacare is working" and promised to add a public option. Sen. Kamala Harris was in the middle with a new Medicare for All concept that preserves private insurance plans employers could sponsor and phases in more gradually. The
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates are split over eliminating employer-provided health insurance under"Medicare for All."
The debates had the feel of an old video clip for Jim McDermott, a former Democratic congressman from Washington state who spent most of his career trying to move a Sanders-style"single-payer" plan and now thinks Biden is onto something. Confronting former Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., a moderate, Warren said,"I don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for. ... I don't get it."
Other moderate candidates take similar approaches. For example, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet's plan is built on a Medicare buy-in initially available in areas that have a shortage of insurers or high costs.The Harris plan is the new entrant, a version of Medicare for All that preserves a role for private plans closely regulated by the government and allows employers to sponsor such plans. The campaign says it would cover everybody.
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