Clinton Gets It on Health Care

Hillary Clinton is right about health care.

In Thursday night’s Democratic debate, Clinton and her fellow Democratic candidate for president, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, debated several issues, including health care reform. While Sanders has been advocating for a single-payer, Medicare-for-all health care plan, Clinton has been pushing to build upon President Barack Obama’s health care law, the Affordable Care Act, to close the remaining gaps in coverage. During the debate, Clinton criticized Sanders’ plan, noting “if you’re having Medicare for all, single-payer, you need to level with people about what they will have at the end of the process you are proposing. And based on every analysis that I can find by people who are sympathetic to the goal, the numbers don’t add up, and many people will actually be worse off than they are right now.” She also said, “The last thing we need is to throw our country into a contentious debate about health care again.”

Democrats should listen to Clinton on this one. Universal coverage should absolutely be the goal of any health care reform plan that is proposed. But health care proposals should also be realistic and politically pragmatic. Sanders’ plan is not. For the full article click here 

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