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xp1337 posted...

I may be splitting hairs but I wouldn't quite characterize Buttigieg's stance as that.

He's arguing for passing a public option and saying that it will be superior to all other private plans so everyone will switch to it and as a result you'll effectively have a single-payer system since everyone's on that plan.

I think what Warren's plan is, and what red is talking about, requires a more active component after the public option implementation phase for it to count here. You note that in that he "doesn't want to do it himself" but I think that's the key distinction here.

Right, that's exactly what I'm talking about. That second paragraph is a fair description of his stance. His campaign website calls "Medicare For All Who Want It" a "glide-path" to true single payer M4A. He is trying to have it both ways without having to commit to single payer. And recently he's abandoning even that in favor of attacking it because it's strategically beneficial. But that stuff is still on his site.

Through Petes Medicare for All Who Want It plan, everyone will be able to opt in to an affordable, comprehensive public alternative. This affordable public plan will incentivize private insurers to compete on price and bring down costs. If private insurers are not able to offer something dramatically better, this public plan will create a natural glide-path to Medicare for All.

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