Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent at HuffPost, writes about politics and policy with a focus on social welfare. He is also the author of SICK (2007, HarperCollins) and THE TEN YEAR WAR (2021, St. Martin's).
They are happening in Washington and Delaware and countless places across the country, and increasingly not just in private. A Tuesday MSNBC interview with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , in which she said Biden needs to demonstrate whether the debate performance was indicative of a broader “condition,” felt like― a signal, intentional or otherwise, that it’s OK for other Democrats to share publicly their anxieties about Biden’s ability to beat former President Donald Trump in November.
But some of the perceptions of Harris date back to her failed 2020 Democratic primary campaign, and one moment in particular: her contribution to the debate over health care policy, which at the time was a major flash point. In that episode, you can see a politician with some of the very liabilities Harris’ critics perceive today. But you can also see one with strengths that many Democrats crave, especially in a president.seemed to render the law politically safe.
More importantly, her plan preserved a role for private insurers, which could continue to offer an alternative to public coverage in the same way they now offer a private alternative to Medicare.. Officials from the Sanders campaign trashed the plan as “terrible policy” and “terrible politics.
The kind of sweeping change Sanders envisions for health care would face enormous political challenges, not only because every industry group would fight it but because the majority of working-age Americans with employer-based coverage have been known toAnd that’s to say nothing of the very real, very big mechanical challenges of trying to rewire one-sixth of the American economy.
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