Hillary Clinton’s health plans show a willingness to take on industry groups to shift costs away from consumers, health care experts on both the right and the left agree. They also say the Affordable Care Act laid the foundation for Clinton’s consumer-centered proposals. Everything becomes simpler after that major health overhaul.
“I’ve known her for a quarter of a century. Her first question is always, how will this affect real people? She’s always doing that,” said Chris Jennings, an outside adviser to the Clinton campaign, in an interview with Morning Consult. He described her policy proposals as “pragmatic and realistic.”
Those words, in part, explain why Clinton’s health proposals aren’t as sexy as other Democratic plans, such as Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” single payer proposal.
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