Former VP Joe Biden is seeking to gain support for a health care policy that is part of his presidential campaign, The Hill reported.
The policy was advertised in the form of a sticker sent by the campaign via press release, and the sticker read “Obamacare: It’s a BFD”, after his fellow 2020 contenders attacked his health care policy that seeks to “protect and build on Obamacare.”
The sticker is a reference to a quote Biden was recorded saying to then-President Barack Obama, during a ceremony for the signing of the Affordable Care Act: “This is a big f—ing deal.”
Biden, widely viewed as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination according to most polls, weathered attacks from several fellow 2020 contenders Wednesday night including Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Biden attacked Harris for her “Medicare for All” plan, warning of tax increases and the elimination of employer-based private insurance, continuing a tussle between two front-runners that began in the first debate.
“Your plan does not cover everyone in America,” Harris told Biden Wednesday night, adding: “Our plan will bring health care to all Americans under a Medicare for All system.”
The central debate is between Harris’s plan of Medicare for All versus Biden’s more moderate plan to give people the option of a government-run plan but also allow private insurance to remain.
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