Forbes November 29, 2019
Bruce Japsen

Health insurers seem to be making it more difficult on Presidential candidates pushing single payer versions of “Medicare for All” as they offer more benefits and services heading into 2020.

And that may help Pete Buttigieg more than Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

It’s as if the health insurance industry is upping its game headed into the heat of the primaries and caucuses that will begin early next year to decide the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee to face Donald Trump should he be re-nominated by the Republican Party.

The new front-runner to win the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, Buttigieg has offered a “Medicare for all who want it” plan that offers a challenge to private insurance companies to bring down prices...

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