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There s a separate question of selling these changes in a general election but where in the primary is going to be the sweet spot on health care? i think she s clearly politically speaking trying to stake out this middle ground and saying i m still for medicare for all, but her plan if you dig into the details is not actually the medicare for all plan that bernie sanders has been touting, because it maintains a significant role for private insurance companies. the medicare advantage plan that already exists, she wants to make sure that that is a part of her medicare for all plan. so politically speaking, she wants to make sure she can tell her supporters that this is sort of reflective of medicare for all, but actually it isn t. i think the flurry of tweets that we ve seen between the bernie sanders camps and kamala harris camps, this is a preview of the fight we are going to see and the clash we are going to see between kamala harris and bernie sanders or elizabeth warren, probably ....
Advantage. but she would do away with private employer-sponsored health care. harris wants a decade-long transition to medicare for all. sanders proposes four years. she pays for it by raising taxes on families making more than $100,000 a year. harris today defending her plan right here in detroit. frankly, i have a vision of what it should be, and the existing plans that have been offered did not express what i wanted. over the course of these many months, i ve heard from people and they want they want a different way. and so i went back to the drawing board and said, okay, let s create our own plan. with me here in detroit to share their reporting and their insights, cnn s phil mattingly, laur lauren. let s start with senator harris and her version of medicare for all. this has been her frustration, unable to give a consistent ....
So he wants to really pinpoint harris in the same camp as warren and sanders, even though as phil pointed out she s trying to do a bit of a balance. and i think half the battle for kamala harris will be how exactly she sells this on stage. she has to own this policy plan. health care is incredibly difficult and complicated. because this is a new plan for her and because we ve seen her struggle to explain exactly where she falls on the issue of medicare for all and what her vision is of health care in this country, i think wednesday night will be really critical for her, purely in terms of this performance aspect. it s extremely personal to people as you look at any polling. what the biden campaign is making clear and the sanders campaign is there s two lanes here. don t create a third one and i agree with m.j. she s going to get hit on this and going to need to be able to explain it in detail on stage. i have no doubt they are prepping her to do just that and she knows what she put ....
Happens to private plans. so she s trying to find that middle ground between sanders an biden. putting this out right before the debate tries to undercut any attacks she s almost certainly going to have on the debate stage. the policy is very important. there s a lot of details that need to come fufrther to get th gist of how it will play out. it will be interesting because she ll be on night two with vice president biden. they ll clearly have some issues. she will not be onstage with the purist, bernie sanders and medicare for all. elizabeth warren will be there with bernie sanders. the sanders campaign calling this a retreat. so continues her gradual backdown from medicare for all. this is why you want a candidate with a lifetime of consistency. let s take a popular good government-run program, add privatization and profit seeking into it. what could go wrong. and the press secretary reading you haven t read the plan, disappointing. you mentioned trying to hit a sweet spot. the que ....
Bernie sanders. it takes ten years to implement. it preserves some role and medicare advantage plans and would elimb nainate we get o health care from our employer. it would eliminate that. this is from the former vice president deputy campaign manager. this new have it every which way approach puts extremely challenging implementation of medicare for all ten years into the future. it would not occur on the watch of even a two-term administration. the result? a bernie sanders light medicare for all and a refusal to be straight with the american middle class, who would have a large tax increase forced on them with this plan. he accuses her of attempting to unravel the affordable care act which is popular so this is a strong line of attack for biden. we expect him to continue this into tomorrow night s debate. ....