You used to support Sanders’ Medicare for all plan. Now you don’t — actually you flip-flopped at least twice now.

You are very clear about how to raise more money than Bernie’s plan to avoid the 4% income premium. Yet nowhere do you detail how having for-profit base insurance providers will be cheaper and/or provide better service than Medicare. Medicare is the most popular health insurance in America and Medicare has the lowest overhead so this is the key point you have left out.

Nor do you explain how expanding over 10 years will decrease the cost of the program compared to Bernie’s plan — particularly how:

Throughout this entire period, I would also ensure the new system of Medicare for All meets clear benchmarks before asking people to join the plan.

when you can’t possibly be in office for 10 years even if you got your plan into law on day 1.

Nor do you explain in any detail these “accelerated delivery system reforms” and how these will save money and/or provide better service than Sanders’ plan. Nor what “value-based care” is. This sounds like lower cost plans with out of pocket /deductible costs to me — one of the main problems today.

Sanders’ plan is very simple: Expand Medicare for all in 4 years and allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. Your plan keeps private insurance as a base alternative, while simulatneously saying that private insurance is one of the major problems today. Then you provide a politically impossible timeline.

Sounds like your selling something that is not cheaper in the long term, impossible to implement in the mid-term, and incredibly complex in the short term. Until you fill in these giant holes in your sales pitch, I’ll stick with Bernie’s Medicare For All plan (maybe with your ideas to elimate the 4% income tax Thanks for that!). Your plan has no track recorrd. Sanders’ plan is simple and already proven to work all over the world.