Buttigieg vows 'fairer, more just health care'

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Buttigieg vows 'fairer, more just health care' after young man dies rationing insulin

White House hopeful Pete Buttigieg (D) vowed to implement a "fairer" and "more just" health care system if elected president after a 21-year-old man, Jesimya David Scherer-Radcliff, died in Minnesota after rationing insulin for his diabetes.

"Jesimya is dead because America is the only industrialized country in the world that doesn't treat health care as a human right. I will fight for a fairer, more just health care system-and I'll do it with Jesy in mind. My condolences are with his family," Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., tweeted Thursday, highlighting a local news report of Scherer-Radcliff's death.
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However, the primary field has produced a bevy of varied health care proposals from a single payer system that would eliminate private insurance to efforts to bolster existing provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

Buttigieg has proposed a "Medicare for All Who Want It" plan that would make available a Medicare-type public option that people can buy into while allowing people to keep their employer-provided insurance if they wish. He says the competition his plan would produce would help produce a path toward "Medicare for All," particularly if insurers don't lower their costs, according to his campaign website.

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