Sen. Kamala Harris told donors she was uncomfortable with the “Medicare for all” plan introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders that she co-sponsored earlier this year.
“I have not been comfortable with Bernie’s plan,” the California Democrat said Sunday at a fundraiser in the Hamptons Bloomberg reported. The presidential contender was the first Democrat in the Senate to co-sponsor the bill in 2017.
Harris, 54, has had a series of flip flops on the issue of healthcare saying she wanted to abolish private insurance before backtracking her statement.
The senator told the Washington Post last week that she was “committed to reining in the private insurance companies.” But she also did not want to take insurance choices away from Americans.
“Look, I’m still committed to reining in the private insurance companies. They’re jacking up prices.”
“But people want choice,” she said. “And I don’t want to be in the business of just taking choice from them without figuring out a way to create options.”— Chelsea Janes (@chelsea_janes) August 19, 2019
Harris is still a co-sponsor of Sanders “Medicare for all” bill which would essentially eliminate private insurance in favor of a single-payer healthcare system.
Sanders is currently in third place in the Democratic presidential primary and Harris is in fourth according to RealClearPolitics polling averages.
