It’s also a leading indicator of how Democrats plan to approach health care as they start thinking about the 2020 presidential campaign. But whatever the proposal’s label, it’s plainly a more ambitious ― and more progressive ― health plan than the Democratic Party’s most influential thinkers have embraced in the past. And increasingly they are thinking about public insurance as a supplement or substitute for private insurance. “There is a broad consensus within the broad progressive debate that health care is a right and that everybody should have health care,” Neera Tanden, president of CAP, told HuffPost. And to conservatives, of course, it would be exactly the wrong way to approach health care ― increasing spending, regulation and taxes, rather than decreasing all three.

Source: Huffington Post February 22, 2018 10:41 UTC