Buttigieg warns of politically dangerous Medicare for All proposals by alexnazaryan
WASHINGTON — On the same November day next year when Americans will decide whether or not to keep President Trump in office for four more years, 468 members of Congress across the nation will defend their seats. And much as Democrats want to defeat Trump, they know they must retain the House of Representatives and compete for the Senate if they are to advance their agenda, regardless of who is president.
“A lot of people don’t want government insurance. I understand that,” recently acknowledged Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, a progressive elder statesman in Congress respected for his ability to appeal to working-class whites. But such arguments have done little to quell anxiety among centrists. And those anxieties spiked with the release of a Monmouth poll of Democratic voters in New Hampshire, a crucial early primary state where many a campaign has been broken . The poll found that while 56 percent of respondents wanted a public option for health care, thus giving the government a far greater role in the health care system than it has today, only 23 percent endorsed Medicare for All.
And it is the Buttigieg campaign that is most eager to make a substantive distinction between the more progressive universal health care proposals of Warren and Sanders and his own. The particulars of those distinctions aside, his campaign argues that free government health care for all is a bridge too far for most Americans. And if they fail to cross it, not only the White House but Congress will remain in Trump’s hands.
Progressives have criticized the plan. Libby Watson, a writer for the New Republic, called it “deeply stupid,” taking acute issue with his automatic enrollment plan for people who currently lack health insurance of any kind.
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