Pete Buttigieg sucks, for all the reasons I laid out in detail here—from his technocratic worldview to his penchant to describe his milquetoast policy plans as a sort of pragmatic progressivism. But a new reason to add to the list? His newly discovered contempt for Medicare for All, which he deployed—some might argue cynically and opportunistically!—as his main line of attack against Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary debate earlier this week. Was his hard pivot against the proposal a sincere reflection of his policy position? Maybe! Was it a desperate attempt to claw at relevance with the older, wealthy white voters who seem to like him? Perhaps! Either way, what a weenie!
And he’s now trying to make the argument that his support for Medicare for All hasn’t changed
. “The difference between Pete, Warren and Sanders isn’t on the goal of achieving universal health care coverage through Medicare. It’s on how to get there,” a Buttigieg spokespersonHere’s what Buttigieg told a reporter in Iowa on Wednesday night, according to his campaign: “I’ve laid out a plan that now explains how we’re going to get there, that makes Medicare available to all and at the same time doesn’t do away with private plans. I think I’ve been consistent through the year that we don’t have to abolish private plans in order to have Medicare available to everybody. And what we’ve done is we’ve laid out a detailed plan on how to get there.
“Now, if that public plan that we’re creating is superior to every alternative, well then it’s going to turn into a glide path that’ll bring us to Medicare for All. It’s just that for me, the most important principle isn’t how many people are being covered by the government, it’s making sure that every single American has health care.
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