At the nation’s largest retirement community, the president announced an executive order that expands the benefits offered by private Medicare plans, contrasting it with “Medicare for all” plans.
After the Green New Deal and Medicare for all, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is turning her attention — and that of her supporters — to poverty and housing.
Julián Castro accused the former vice president of contradicting himself on whether people would need to opt into his Medicare plan, though it did not appear he had.
The first debate exchange captured the battle within the Democratic Party over how the presidential nominee should change the country’s health care system.
Some Democrats are proposing a government alternative to private insurance. But allowing people to choose such a plan may destabilize the A.C.A., some experts say.
Ms. Harris is forging her own path on the health care issue, putting forth a plan for providing Medicare for all Americans that stops short of the complete overhaul Bernie Sanders has proposed.