NY Times: Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan for Joe Biden (Healthcare)

[TomCADem]

Interesting piece by the Yale Professor who helped design Elizabeth Warrens' Healthcare plan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/opinion/joe-biden-health-care.html

The bottom line is that Mr. Biden’s plan would not achieve universal insurance and would leave many with private insurance continuing to face high costs. Yes, his plan also has a relatively modest 10-year cost. But, partly for that reason, it would expand the reach of federal insurance only modestly, which means in turn it would be unlikely to rein in prices on its own.

Ms. Warren’s public option is very different. It would offer broader benefits on more generous terms than any existing proposal besides Mr. Sanders’s, including free coverage for everyone under age 18. Her public option would automatically enroll everyone younger than 50 who lacked alternative coverage. Those over age 50 would be able to enroll directly in Medicare — that is, a full decade before they could join Medicare under Mr. Biden’s current proposal.

Ms. Warren’s plan also includes a number of specific measures to reduce the prices paid by the federal government. Moreover, her public option is so generous, it’s certain to get substantial enrollment, so that pricing power will reach a big and growing share of the market.

Indeed, Ms. Warren’s public option is so generous that if it were set up, tens of millions of insured Americans with workplace coverage would likely jump into it. (Mr. Biden also allows those with employer-sponsored insurance to enroll in the public option, but his public option is much less attractive.) Based on an independent analysis of a similar plan I developed roughly a decade ago, I estimate that 50 million Americans would immediately enroll, with the number rising over time.

[Budi]

1. Mines best, his is ok..BUT..BUT. BUT..

Ugh.
Ya ok, then

Maybe Warren has a different way of twisting Repubs arms to get the plan through.
Biden & Obama laid out a very good plan only to be chopped apart by the Repubs & red States
Good luck Liz. And I really mean that.

We'll need a Dem President with a Dem Senate & House majority. So get busy convincing States to vote out their Repub leaders.

[TomCADem]

3. Warren's Plan Is Consistent With Biden's...

...given that even Biden has suggested that a public option could be a bridge to a broader expansion of coverage. Warren just makes this goal explicit.

[safeinOhio]

2. Would be great to put on the table.

Then voters could compare with the no plan the republicans have been working on....forever, that we have never seen.