Commentary By
Tanner Aliff is a Portland-based Young Voices contributor and a research fellow studying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With Georgia’s special Senate runoff election results showing Republicans are going to lose their majority in the Senate, presumptive President-elect Joe Biden is likely to face a lot less resistance fulfilling his promises of creating a public option in Obamacare.
Additionally, with polls showing nearly two-thirds of Americans approving of a public option, the threat of a single-payer health care system is one step closer to becoming a reality.
If Biden’s health care plan was ever to be realized, it would be a total disaster, as I can attest from my own experience.