At this point, it’s unfair to call yet another drastic shift in Kamala Harris’ policy a “flip-flop.” That would imply that she’s ever held a hard or original position in the first place.
Two years after co-sponsoring Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill in the Senate, and a month after launching an incoherent healthcare proposal that would eliminate private insurers within a decade, Harris has staked out another new and completely contradictory position on healthcare. Speaking to billionaire donors in the Hamptons over the weekend, the 2020 hopeful declared that she’s no longer “comfortable” with the Sanders plan she so ardently defended just months prior. Echoing comments from earlier in the week noting that “people want choice,” Harris decided to recommit to capitalism as a virtue and declare that she would in fact allow private insurers to exist.
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