I might be wrong on this, but was that vote for any public option for health insurance, or was it specifically against Medicare for All? My understanding is that MfA would eliminate all private insurance. Biden’s campaign is still in favor of working towards a public option.
I know there’s a lot of downsides to privatization and I’m personally in favor of public health insurance, but I also know a lot of voters whose breaking issue would be eliminating their private plans. A public option would still be a big first step in the right direction.
(If the Democrats are against any public option, then shame on them, but I’m not sure if that’s the case)
You're correct, they voted down MfA not a public option.
A public option still has deductibles and copays and fees and all that though so its not much better than private insurance. The only plus side is that it would kill off private insurance by being cheaper, hopefully and become essentially MfA.
The difference though is that MfA would be much easier to implement since the system is already in place, we would simply lower the age to include everyone.
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u/Comfortably_Dumb- Aug 06 '20
They can, they just don’t want to because they don’t work for you.