Kamala Harris is filling in the details of how she would move 330 million Americans onto a single government health insurance system, her fullest statements on an issue that's getting top billing in the Democratic presidential primary
WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris is filling in the details of how she would move 330 million Americans onto a single government health insurance system, her fullest statements on an issue that's getting top billing in the Democratic presidential primary.Harris is a supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" legislation, but the plan that she released on Monday stops short of the full-scale overhaul that Sanders has envisioned.
In a Medium post published on Monday, she said her focus was on finding a way to lower health care costs. Harris is releasing her plan days before Democrats meet in Detroit for the second set of presidential debates. Harris will appear on stage with former Vice President Joe Biden, the most high-profile candidate in the sprawling field to opposed Medicare for All in favor of a so-called"public option" that would allow people to decide between a government-financed plan or a private one.
"You have a lot of people out there supporting that plan and are running and saying, 'But I'm not for that tax,'" Biden said recently in Las Vegas."There's no way to pay for it."
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