Biden's health-care plan is more than 50 years in the making
Could he finally square the circle in an intractable policy battle?
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This year’s presidential campaign, whatever else it has been, has not been about policy. With the coronavirus pandemic, protests against racial injustice, threats of militia violence, out-of-control debates, and a possibly contagious president undermining the voting process, policy proposals have gotten buried. This even applies to health care, despite polling that shows voters rank it among the election’s five most important issues.
Joe Biden’s detailed health-care plan suggests that a very specific, pragmatic approach to policy has survived the gauntlet of the long 2020 campaign. Biden has managed to produce a proposal that could synthesize decades of debate over this most critical issue. In a real sense, even with the focus of campaign coverage elsewhere, Americans could be voting on major changes to how we pay for health care.
