3 things Joe Biden is still getting wrong about Medicare-for-all

He's got it exactly backwards, in fact

Joe Biden.
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The top 10 remaining candidates for the 2020 Democratic nomination debated each other Thursday night. As previously, health care was a major topic of discussion, and as previously, the entire discussion revolved around the ideas of Bernie Sanders — namely, his Medicare-for-all plan.

Former Vice President Joe Biden attacked Sanders' plan on several points. The arguments were bad and wrong, but usefully so — providing an excellent brief in favor of Medicare-for-all, once one understands they are the opposite of truth.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.