Health Care Proving to Be Divisive Issue Within Democratic Primaries
Two candidates in
Delgado clarified, "I believe we should move in the direction of Medicare for All," and that "a necessary first step is giving people the choice to buy into Medicare."
But some candidates are not fans of such compromises. "[I am] fighting Medicare for all," said
Races across the country are seeing similar divides. In one
But according to Ocasio-Cortez spokesperson
Asked whether Ocasio-Cortez would ever compromise her stance on single-payer for a more moderate proposal, Chakrabarti said "absolutely not," stating that "it is completely immoral for the richest nation in the history of the world to not enact a single payer plan immediately that could save millions."
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A Morning Consult poll found that while health care ranked third among top policy issues for all voters in 2018, after security and economic issues, it was a close second for
Those numbers clue us in on just why health care is such a contentious issue amongst the Democratic ranks.
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Asked whether health care could become a dividing partisan issue to the degree that abortion or guns are, Plotkin said it's "not likely," because unlike those issues, "health care is a dense rope made up of many twisting strands, financial, administrative and technical."
"I think the chances for single payer are slight at best," he stated. "Much more likely if
Plotkin is not the only analyst who believes that, despite single-payer popularity,
Despite this, single-payer plays well with Democratic voters and even some outside the party. A
But Pope contends with the idea that single-payer plans, such as medicare-for-all, would be popular with voters if implemented. "There is no free lunch with single-payer," he argued, "It can only force people to pay more, or force them to receive less."
Moving into the general election, health care is unlikely to dissipate as a key issue on the campaign trail.
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