Journalists have been badgering Warren to get specific about how much taxes would have to go up to pay for Medicare for all. Warren has been claiming that for most families, they would go down, but she hasn’t offered specifics. As I said, Warren has made policy seriousness a key aspect of her political persona, so her fogginess on health care really stands out. So what I’ll want to see is whether Warren gives herself and her party enough flexibility to assuage these concerns. There are many excellent things in her overall policy agenda; but she won’t get a chance to do those things unless she can extricate herself from what looks like a health policy trap.

Source: New York Times October 21, 2019 22:30 UTC