Joe Biden might want to emulate Elizabeth Warren’s two-step health-care plan, writes ed_kilgore
Biden could move much further toward M4A than he has without losing significant support. Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Joe Biden’s first heavily telegraphed “gesture” toward supporters of Bernie Sanders after the Vermont senator’s withdrawal from the 2020 race was a slight move to the left on student-loan debt and health care.
Perhaps Team Biden is influenced by the fact that recent polling on health care by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows self-identified Democrats support Medicare for All and Biden’s own public-option proposals by roughly equal measures. Forty-nine percent strongly favor M4A as a replacement for private health insurance, and 30 percent somewhat favor it, while 46 percent strongly favor a public option competing with private health insurance and 36 percent somewhat favor it.
What is Uncle Joe to do? His basic choices are to stay where he is and hope that Sanders voters and other progressives back him against the Evil One, even if they are deeply dissatisfied with the nominee’s policy positions; find areas other than health care in which to make concessions to the left ; or move toward Medicare for All in a visible way without entirely repudiating his prior position.
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