New York Times March 5, 2021
‘Medicare for all’ and the public option were hot topics during primary season, but the politics of passing those “gets tricky really fast.”
Democrats spent much of the 2020 presidential primary debating the best way to expand public health insurance. They sparred over whether to enroll everyone in public coverage — the preferred policy of Senator Bernie Sanders — or to give everyone a choice to do so, the public option plan that President Biden supports.
The candidates repeatedly proposed a future in which private insurers play a diminished role in the American health system — or no role at all.
But the first major legislation of the Biden administration, if it passes in the Senate,...
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