Biden's Healthcare plan: Despite the rumors, yes, it is actually CENTERED around the public option.

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It doesn't hurt they also spent two decades as colleagues of the Senate and another eight years in legislative negotiations when he was VP under Obama. Sanders knows Biden, even if he disagrees with Biden on some issues and policy solutions. Sanders sees Biden as the current path to a more progressive party and a more progressive county that just isn't there with Trump, and picking Harris, who may not subscribe to Sander's combative style, but remains one of the most progressive senators currently sitting in the Senate today, likely helped him solidify his endorsement even further.

Oh I agree completely. It was like when people were attempting to tell me how Clinton and Sanders were polar opposites, then you went to their actual voting records and they voted the same over 90% of the time. People do not seem to realize how they are more alike than they are different on most issues due to campaign rhetoric exaggerating and focusing on their differences. Of course they do not always agree, but in the end Bernie knows that Biden will at least try to do the right thing. The same cannot be said about the current administration and tbh it is baffling to me why some who call themselves progressive are actually trying to downplay the very real and extreme damage being done to everything progressives support by the current administration while simultaneously spread every negative rumor they can get their hands on about Biden.. Makes me honestly think they are not really even progressive at all and are instead MAGA in guise if they can turn a blind eye to what we are actually dealing with right now.

 

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Oh, ok, so nothing new at all, just an article from a year ago that you decided to make into another thread. Aight.

It is new. Biden updated his site Monday with it and the plan is still well in tact as to what we hoped it would be. His plan centers around the public option and that is what he is telling everyone now, so this is good news indeed. This is a different topic as the other one wasn't based on what Biden was actually doing here and was instead based on speculation and unfounded rumors that do not actually apply to his real plan here. For us to be able to evaluate the actual plan here, we need to focus on the plan itself, not whatever some random " reading between the lines" nonsense says it is.

 

[lil devils x]

Isn't it funny how what they mean as an attack to attempt to make Biden's plan look bad ACTUALLY make it look good?:

In other words, the public option would compete with the entire private health insurance market. And the public option would win. Not because it provides better coverage but because the competition is rigged. The government wouldn’t have to play by the same rules as private insurers.

Public insurance already underpays doctors and hospitals. Private health plans pay 143% of what Medicare pays for physician services. Underpayments are even more pronounced at hospitals, where private plans pay an average of 241% of what Medicare does, according to work from the RAND Corporation.

Biden’s public option would do likewise. Underpaying providers would allow the program to charge artificially low prices to patients. People would, understandably, flock to health coverage with lower premiums and deductibles, and the government would steadily take customers from private insurers. Biden’s plan even envisions a version of the public option for some low-income individuals that has no deductible or premium.

Conservative estimates have 40 million Americans signing up for a public option within its first year of operation. That number would only climb in the years that follow, as providers hike what they charge private insurers to make up for underpayments from the public option. Yet more people would flee to the public plan, and the cycle would repeat.

The Democrats are indeed unified behind a government takeover of the health insurance market. While their nominee may not explicitly endorse Medicare for All, that’s exactly what his administration would deliver.

A Look At The Democrats’ Not-So-Moderate Healthcare Platform

At their virtual convention this week, Democrats went to great lengths to communicate that they were united in their quest to defeat President Trump. Health care would appear to be the exception to that spirit of unity. More than 700 delegates to the Democratic National Convention said...

www.pacificresearch.org

How exactly is this supposed to be a bad thing here? Isn't that doing exactly what we want it to do?