Elizabeth Warren’s Health Care Plan Still Leaves a Lot of Unanswered Questions
Everyone is clear on exactly where Bernie Sanders stands on Medicare for All. But despite the release of her health care plan this week and embrace of the phrase “Medicare for All,” Elizabeth Warren’s precise health care proposal remains murky.

Elizabeth Warren speaks during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Texas Southern University on September 12, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
Elizabeth Warren has always been the best self-described Democrat in the presidential primary race. Apart from independent Bernie Sanders, she’s the only other candidate whose politics contain an inkling of class war and espouses an even remotely credible disdain for the financial sector.
But as she has cozied up to the Democratic establishment as her poll numbers have surged, it’s been unsettling to watch the case for Warren creep from “Wall Street Fears Her” to the more technocratic “She’s Got a Plan for That” — particularly since her pantheon of plans has largely snubbed health care.
That changed this week: at long last, Warren’s campaign website includes a health care section, which declares her support for Medicare for All. She’s also used the phrase more often in debates and interviews.