Opinion: Get ready for Buttigieg
Mayor Pete Buttigieg meets with voters in Portsmouth, N.H., on March 8. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 11 at 12:30 PM Get ready for the Buttigieg boomlet. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg had a stellar showing on CNN’s town hall with him Sunday night, confirming a dispiriting truism about our politics.
That might be the best answer on Venezuela I’ve heard from any Democratic candidate — maybe the best foreign policy answer, period. He’s not shy about supporting democracy or afraid to denounce Nicolás Maduro, but he rightly says this isn’t a situation that would be improved by use of American troops.
In my view, the best way to do that is through what you might call a Medicare-for-all-who-want-it setup. In other words, you take some flavor of Medicare, you make it available on the exchange as a kind of public option, and you invite people to buy into it. So if people like me are right that that’s ultimately going to be more efficient over time and more cost-effective, then you will see that very naturally become a glide path.
And it's become very personal for me, too, because we lost my father a few weeks ago. And it was to cancer. It was a brutally difficult time for our family. I make decisions for a living, and I was not prepared for some of the decisions that we faced in consultation with the medical team.
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