Where 2020 Democrats stand on Medicare-for-all and other health-care issues
Hover for more information, click to highlight a candidateNot all have been specific about how far they’re willing to go in support of single-payer health care.Booker co-sponsored Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-all bill, but has said he wouldn’t do away with private health insurance. He has backed proposals to lower Medicare’s eligibility age to 50 and to create a Medicaid-based public health-care option on state insurance marketplaces.
Gabbard co-sponsored the Medicare for All Act, a version similar to the Sanders bill introduced in the House in 2017. : “Passing Medicare for All ... so families would never again have to worry about affording a trip to the doctor or the prescriptions they need.”Harris sparked a debate when she said she’d be willing to end private health insurance. She co-sponsored Sanders’s bill in 2017 and has also backed proposals to lower Medicare’s age of eligibility to 50 and to create a Medicaid-based public health-care option on state insurance marketplaces.
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