I&I Editorial
After going back and forth and back and forth about whether she would eliminate private insurance and shove every American into Medicare, Kamala Harris thinks she’s found a solution.
Shove everyone into Medicare, but do it a little more slowly and pretend that private insurers will still be involved.
No doubt the Democratic California senator is reading the same polls as everyone else. Namely, that the public thinks it likes “Medicare for All†until it learns what it means. Then support evaporates. But Harris still wants to appeal to the Democrats’ increasingly socialist base.
So, voilà . She’s proposing to let people choose between regular Medicare and Medicare Advantage, which currently lets seniors pick from privately run, government-subsidized insurance plans and which is increasingly popular with retirees — 22 million of whom are now on an Advantage plan.
Seems like a reasonable compromise, doesn’t it?
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https://issuesinsights.com/2019/08/01/kamala-harris-must-think-voters-are-pretty-dumb/
