With the three top contenders on the same stage for the first time, rifts in the Democratic Party over health care came into sharper focus at the primary debate in Houston Thursday.
The third Democratic debate began with ABC News and Univision moderators setting up a heated discussion between former Vice President Joe Biden, who has proposed a public option that would expand the Affordable Care Act, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is pushing a single-payer Medicare for All plan, which has also been endorsed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
“In the United States of America we are spending twice as much per capita on health care as the Canadians or any other major country on earth,” said Sanders.“Yeah but Americans don’t want to pay twice as much as other countries and they guarantee health care to all people,” Sanders shot back. “I know a lot about cancer. Let me tell you something, it’s personal to me,” said Biden, whose son Beau died of cancer in 2015. He said cancer patients would be covered under his plan.
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