HEALTH-care policy has become one of the most glaring areas of disagreement between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. In last week’s debate, the two leading contenders laid out starkly different visions, with Mr Sanders taking a pie-in-the-sky approach while Mrs Clinton cemented herself as a pragmatic incrementalist. After a Republican debate a few days earlier in which the discourse over health-care amounted to the rather empty mantra of “repealing and replacing” Obamacare—without a single detail from any of the contenders on what a replacement might entail—the Sanders-Clinton exchange was refreshingly substantive.
The first mention of health-care came in the candidates’ opening statements, when moderator Lester Holt of NBC News asked which “top three priorities” the candidates would pursue in their “first 100 days in office”....Continue reading
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