Elizabeth Warren raised her hand at the DemDebate because she wants to eliminate private insurance. She’s also making a political bet, writes gdebenedetti
Elizabeth Warren during Wednesday night’s debate. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images For a few weeks, the behind-the-scenes grumbling was getting louder in precincts of the left supportive of Bernie Sanders: What, exactly, was Elizabeth Warren’s position on health care? She was an outspoken proponent of Medicare for All, sure, but they wanted more clarity on her position about whether private insurance should remain an option.
The question of how to handle this particular issue has been fraught for the Democratic primary field — just ask Kamala Harris — and independent strategists and analysts, and some of Warren’s opponents, quickly warned that this unpopular position would be politically poisonous in a general election in which she’d need to win over moderate voters.
But the answer was also in keeping with a broader political philosophy that colors Warren’s effort, and Sanders’s, too. Neither Warren nor those around her have ever bought into the idea that proposals like this one are sufficiently potent ammunition for Republicans to warrant backing off.
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