As Opponents Tout Medicare for All, Biden Leans Into Obamacare
- Plan would build on ACA, aim to make coverage more affordable
- Biden will discuss proposal at AARP-hosted forum in Iowa
Biden has warned voters that Medicare for All would be expensive and hard to achieve.
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Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden wants to add a public option to the existing U.S. health insurance system and work to make coverage more affordable, according to a plan his campaign released Monday.
Biden’s health care proposals rely on keeping the Affordable Care Act in place while other Democratic presidential candidates are looking past the 2010 law to campaign on versions of a Medicare for All plan first proposed by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.