Sen. Kamala Harris releases single-payer health care plan with role for private insurance

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Kamala Harris is filling in the details of how she would move 330 million Americans onto a single government health insurance system, her fullest statements on an issue that's getting top billing in the Democratic presidential primary.

The issue also has posed some problems for the California senator.

Harris is a supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” legislation, but the plan that she released on Monday stops short of the full-scale overhaul that Sanders has envisioned. While Harris would still replace the Affordable Care Act with a single-payer health plan for all Americans, she is splitting with Sanders on some of the key details.

Harris differs with the Vermont senator, a rival for the 2020 Democratic nomination, in slowing the transition to a single-payer system to 10 years instead of the four he has proposed. She still envisions a role for the private system — just as long as it takes its lead from the government. And Harris is, for the first time, addressing how she would pay for a sweeping health care overhaul that Sanders has estimated could cost as much as $40 trillion over one decade.

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https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-nw-kamala-harris-health-care-plan-20190729-qcrw4ueixjeh7gvyv5istswpnq-story.html

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1. He plan is supported by Obama's HHS Secretary (and Obamacare architect)

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KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, former HHS Secretary and architect of Obamacare, on @KamalaHarris' Medicare for All plan: "This plan builds on the progress we made in the Affordable Care Act. We need innovative ideas like this. Senator Harris' plan is a smart way to get to Medicare for All."