Post by Logan on May 11, 2016 6:48:15 GMT -6
WASHINGTON, May 10 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, making a significant shift to her left as she's poised to enter the campaign's general election, revived the political debate over the so-called "public option," a healthcare proposal that would allow older Americans to buy into Medicare.
The public option became a political football during President Barack Obama's first term, when it was at the center of the debate over his Affordable Care Act. The public option was, at the time, seen as a sort of half-measure that stopped short of the liberal goal to create a single-payer government healthcare system and centrists who wanted to preserve the private health insurance system.
Clinton, speaking at a coffee shop in northern Virginia, said she backs the public option.
"I'm also in favor of what's called the public option, so that people can buy into Medicare at a certain age," she said, according to Bloomberg News. "Which will take a lot of pressure off the costs."
Read more: www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/05/10/Hillary-Clinton-revives-support-for-healthcare-public-option/3261462923151/?spt=hs&or=tn_us
The public option became a political football during President Barack Obama's first term, when it was at the center of the debate over his Affordable Care Act. The public option was, at the time, seen as a sort of half-measure that stopped short of the liberal goal to create a single-payer government healthcare system and centrists who wanted to preserve the private health insurance system.
Clinton, speaking at a coffee shop in northern Virginia, said she backs the public option.
"I'm also in favor of what's called the public option, so that people can buy into Medicare at a certain age," she said, according to Bloomberg News. "Which will take a lot of pressure off the costs."
Read more: www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/05/10/Hillary-Clinton-revives-support-for-healthcare-public-option/3261462923151/?spt=hs&or=tn_us