Sherrod Brown has been calling for universal health care since 1992. He was a senator by that point, and like every other Democrat in the chamber, he voted for President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. Brown, who previously supported “Medicare for all,” now says he wants to focus on narrower ideas, like opening up Medicare to near-retirees, because they are more politically realistic. The tilt toward private insurance coincided with a time when the Democratic Party as a whole had a more conservative orientation and its policy advisers had more faith in private enterprise and the forces of competition. Bloomberg via Getty Images Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has said she favors “Medicare for all.” But she has also said she's open to other forms of universal coverage and would support incremental reforms on the way to universal health care coverage.

Source: Huffington Post February 05, 2019 10:52 UTC