From the Daily Caller: Vice President Kamala Harris supported “Medicare for All” and abolishing private health insurance as recently as 2019, before later proposing her own more moderate plan.
Harris was a co-signer on Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” bill in 2017, which sought to eliminate private insurers and create a new single-payer system with the federal government acting as the sole provider of healthcare services. She then went on to support abolishing private insurance in a June 2019 presidential primary debate before claiming it was a gaffe two days later, putting out a revised policy the following month that permitted private insurers to exist if they adhered to “strict Medicare requirements on costs and benefits.”
“Essentially, we would allow private insurance to offer a plan in the Medicare system, but they will be subject to strict requirements to ensure it lowers costs and expands services,” Harris wrote in a Medium post in July 2019. “If they want to play by our rules, they can be in the system. If not, they have to get out.”
Some Kamala classics from @taxreformer.
1. In your plan, eventually everyone would be taken off the private plan that their company currently has? “Yes.”
2. “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.”
3. Do you ban plastic straws? “I think we should. Yes.”
4. “I… pic.twitter.com/NDvAF5vL6q
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) July 5, 2024
