(CNN)President Donald Trump is seeking to paint Joe Biden’s health care plan as socialized medicine that would eliminate private insurance coverage.
However, Biden has not swayed from his commitment to continue allowing private plans — despite the pressure from the Democrats’ progressive wing, which wants to put the federal government at the center of the nation’s health care system, akin to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” proposal.
“Competition and the option of private insurance plans remain central in this approach,” said Linda Blumberg, institute fellow in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute.
While a joint Biden-Sanders task force yielded a few changes to the former vice president’s health care proposal this summer, the campaign stuck with the more moderate path that Biden had advocated throughout the Democratic presidential primary.
His initial plan, unveiled in the summer of 2019, would insure an estimated 97% of Americans, though it would still leave 10 million people without coverage. That projection does not include more recent changes.
Nearly 30 million people lacked coverage last year, according to the Census Bureau.
Source: Biden campaigns on strengthening the Affordable Care Act as Trump undermines it
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