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Bernie Sanders Fires Back at Joe Biden Over Medicare for All Claims

I think this is worth a Pinocchio.

Biden said Saturday that his proposal for a public option would cost about $750 billion over 10 years, according to CNN. 

He is the only Democratic front-runner that opposes a single-payer health plan enrolling all Americans in a Medicare-like program.

That last is a lie, if the Times is right.

As of June 23, 8 of the Dems supported M for A.

12 supported some sort of public option, including Mayor Pete, Casto, and Joe B.

3 did not respond to the Times' question.

A new survey of the Democratic candidates by The New York Times finds that many of them prefer less sweeping changes than the Medicare for All Act, the single-payer bill introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders and supported by Senator Elizabeth Warren and several other presidential hopefuls. 

A majority of candidates in the survey — including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the leader in early polls — said they would rather add a “public option” in the health care system that would compete with private plans.

The public option was once considered too far-reaching — champions of the idea in Congress could not muster quite enough support to include it in the Affordable Care Act in 2010. 

But it is now seen as a more moderate alternative to Mr. Sanders’s plan, which would all but eliminate private health insurance and enroll everyone in a government-run program.

Even some candidates who back the single-payer approach of Medicare for All told The Times they would also be willing to support a choice between some kind of public option and private insurance, an acknowledgment that many Americans like their private coverage and want the choice to keep it.

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The findings underscore that the Democratic field, like the electorate, has not moved en masse to left-wing positions on health care. 

While Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren are among the most full-throated supporters of major change, influencing the conversation with their provocative ideas, many other candidates say they are inclined to try to broaden options for health care rather than wholly replace the current system of coverage with a strictly government-run one.

“We don’t need to blow up our current health care system to provide everyone with high-quality, affordable care,” Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado wrote, explaining his preference for a public option.

Thing is, Joe B is leaving not much room for other moderates.

Why choose an unknown, if you are a moderate, when a superstar is on the ticket?

Things are a little different for the, uh, immoderate voters.

Because so many of them are identitarians who really, really don't want to vote for an old white guy, Sanders doesn't have the same effect on them that Biden has on moderate voters.

For each of Sanders and Biden, the second choice most popular among their voters is the other old white guy.

That might be a dash of identity politics getting in there, but I think it's name recognition and maybe just a preference for experience.