Vice President Kamala Harris supported “Medicare for All” and abolishing private health insurance as recently as 2019, before later proposing her own more moderate plan.
Harris was a co-signer on Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” bill in 2017, which sought to eliminate private insurers and create a new single-payer system with the federal government acting as the sole provider of healthcare services. She then went on to support abolishing private insurance in a June 2019 presidential primary debate before claiming it was a gaffe two days later, putting out a revised policy the following month that permitted private insurers to exist if they adhered to “strict Medicare requirements on costs and benefits.” (RELATED: Kamala Harris Co-Sponsored A Green New Deal. Now, She’s Running For The Oval Office)
“Essentially, we would allow private…
