Kamala Harris' 'Medicare for all' plan includes a role for private health insurance
by Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times
Jul 29, 2019
3 minutes
Sen. Kamala Harris released her own version of a "Medicare for all" plan on Monday that imposes a tax on Wall Street instead of on middle-class households and tightly regulates, but not abolishes, private insurance plans.
The proposal offers the most detailed look yet on how the California senator, who has struggled at times to articulate her health care stances, would balance the competing demands within the Democratic party: promoting a sweeping government overhaul that has became a rallying cry of progressives while assuaging wary
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