The decommodification of health insurance was always an anomaly in Elizabeth Warren's liberal reform agenda. After all, Warren famously called herself a “capitalist to my bones.” But after months of cryptic rhetoric, she has reconciled this inconsistency with a health care plan that won't get us closer to achieving Medicare for All.
Warren's recently unveiled health care plan asks us to park the demand for Medicare for All for three years in favor of pushing for a public option. Instead of replacing private insurers with a single-payer system, a public option is a publicly run health care plan that would compete against private insurers on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges.
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