Kamala Harris’ big health-care plan: Medicare Advantage for all?
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 8:41 am on July 29, 2019
More than six months after the launch of her campaign, Kamala Harris has finally defined her health-care position. Now she wants Medicare Advantage for All, in partnership with the oft-vilified insurance companies that progressives hope to crowd out with Medicare for All. It sounds like a great compromise … except for one very large point:
Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday unveiled a plan to achieve universal coverage by growing Medicare with the help of private insurers, an effort that splits the difference with her chief Democratic presidential rivals and finally equips the California Democrat with her own signature health proposal ahead of this week’s debates.
“Medicare works,†Harris writes in a Medium essay posted Monday morning. “Now, let’s expand it to all Americans and give everyone access to comprehensive health care.†…
Harris’ new plan breaks with her rivals who occupy the opposite poles of the debate by effectively proposing “Medicare Advantage for all†— permitting private insurers to continue selling plans, akin to the two-decade-old offshoot of Medicare — in addition to letting Americans immediately buy into the traditional Medicare program and adding new benefits, like more mental health services. As a result, Americans would be able to choose between the public plan or certified private Medicare plans. Harris also says she’ll immediately enroll newborns and the uninsured, an effort to quickly get to universal coverage.
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