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Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden discuss an issue during the tenth Democratic 2020 presidential debate at the Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., February 25, 2020. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Politics Feb 25

Democrats debate whether Medicare for All is liability in 2020 election

By Associated Press

Health Nov 07

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Amid roiling health care debate, the share of uninsured Americans is growing

Health care is a top 2020 political issue. Democratic candidates are debating whether to build upon the Affordable Care Act, or 'Obamacare,' or replace it with Medicare for All. Meanwhile, President Trump wants to dismantle the ACA entirely. As millions…

Politics Nov 01

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden listens to Senator Elizabeth Warren during the fourth U.S. Democratic presidential candidates 2020 election debate in Westerville, Ohio.REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Biden says Warren ‘is making it up’ on ‘Medicare For All’ payment

Former Vice President Joe Biden attacked Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s new health care plan Friday, saying his chief 2020 Democratic rival was obscuring the real costs of her $20 trillion "Medicare for All” proposal.

By Daniel Bush

Politics Nov 01

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks at a campaign rally at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, U.S., September 25, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RC1A90010A40
Warren releases plan to fund ‘Medicare for All’

The Massachusetts senator famously "has a plan" for everything, but details of how she'd pay for her health plan come with far higher political stakes.

By Will Weissert, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

Politics Oct 15

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden listens to Senator Elizabeth Warren during the fourth U.S. Democratic presidential candidates 2020 election debate in Westerville, Ohio.REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
2020 Democratic candidates challenge Warren on how she’ll fund ‘Medicare for All’ plan

Warren has refused to directly answer when asked how she'd pay for her proposal, and during Tuesday night's presidential debate, she once again dodged, insisting only that "costs will go down" for the middle class.

By Steve Peoples, Will Weissert, Darlene Superville, Associated Press

Oct 05

Column: How the US could afford ‘Medicare for all’

By Gerald Friedman, The Conversation

There is a simpler and less costly path toward single-payer, and it may have a better chance of success: simply strike the words “who are age 65 or over” from the 1965 amendments to the Social Security Act that created…

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Oct 03

Column: What seniors should know about Trump’s Medicare executive order

By Philip Moeller

The executive order has been billed as the president’s alternative to Democrats’ Medicare for All plans.

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Jul 31

2020 Democrats are test-driving health care plans. Here’s what the Trump administration says

By Laura Santhanam

Democratic contenders have released an array of plans to improve access to health care -- with several championing Medicare for All, or another single-payer option -- and President Donald Trump and Republicans are eager to knock them down.

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Jul 31

Fact check: Democrats make some questionable health care claims in presidential debate

By Emmarie Huetteman, Kaiser Health News

As the candidates laid out their ideas about health care in the second Democratic debates, not all of their claims fully stood up to scrutiny.

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Jul 30

Fact check: The first night of the 2020 Democratic debates in Detroit

Did what candidates said the first night of the Democratic debate in Detroit hold up?…

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