Pete Buttigieg started a pile-on against Elizabeth Warren over how she'd pay for Medicare-for-All

Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was put on the defensive earlier during the Democratic primary debate Tuesday night in Westerville, Ohio.

After Warren gave a somewhat evasive response to a question about whether she would raise taxes on the middle class to fund Medicare-for-all, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was the first to strike. Buttigieg criticized Warren for not providing a "yes or no" answer to a "yes or no" question, before launching into a defense of his own plan, which would allow people to stay on their private plans if they so choose.

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"I don't understand why you believe the only way to deliver affordable coverage to everybody is to obliterate private plans," Buttigieg said to Warren.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) then got a few digs in, as well, calling Warren's plan a "pipe dream," and former Vice President Joe Biden also explained why he doesn't support Medicare-for-All either. Tim O'Donnell

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