Hillary Clinton said that “Medicare for all” won’t be passed into law.
“You just don’t think that that plan would ever get enacted?” interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Clinton at a New York Times conference Thursday.
“No, I don’t. I don’t,” she said. “But the goal is the right goal.”
Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont back “Medicare for all,” a plan to enroll everyone in the United States into a government healthcare plan and ban private health insurance. Clinton said she favored a plan along the lines of those proposed by South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden that would allow the public to keep their private plans or buy into a government plan.
“I believe the smarter approach is to build on what we have. A public option is something I’ve been in favor of for a very long time,” the former secretary of state and 2016 presidential candidate said. “I don’t believe we should be in the midst of a big disruption while we are trying to get to 100% coverage and deal with costs.”
“If you look at our major competitors, a lot of them have mixed systems and produce very good outcomes, like Switzerland, Germany, et cetera,” she said.
Clinton said she will support whichever Democrat wins the nomination and hinted that she knew “who it is likely to be … But I’m not going to go there.”
