The 2020 Democratic hopefuls can agree on one thing: All Americans should have access to health care. But what that means in practice could look dramatically different depending on which candidate, if any, wins the presidential election.
Four of the 10 candidates who participated in the first Democratic presidential debate tonight are on the record as supporting Medicare for All—a government-run insurance plan for all Americans. The rest seem to support a hybrid way forward, in which Americans who have private insurance would get to keep their plan, but those who are underinsured would be able to sign up for an (ideally inexpensive) public plan.
