Kamala Harris' complicated history with Medicare for All becomes a Trump campaign attack line

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Medicare for All gained broad support among progressive Democrats, especially those with eyes on the White House, before and during the early stages of the party's 2020 presidential primary.
57% : "A lot of people have private health insurance.
56% : Because Medicare for All stands for the proposition that all Americans from the day of birth, throughout their lives, will have access to health care.
54% : "Medicare will set the rules of the road for these plans, including price and quality, and private insurance companies will play by those rules, not the other way around.
49% : "What Medicare for All understands is that health care is a human right and the function of a sane health care system is not to make sure that insurance companies and drug companies make tens of billions of dollars in profit.
46% : "Medicare for All is the plan that she believes will solve the problem and get all Americans covered.
43% : "Harris's words at the town hall, followed by her adviser's subsequent effort to pump the brakes, focused the spotlight on long-simmering internal Democratic tensions over the future of American health care, an issue they had successfully united over in defense of Obamacare during Trump's first year in office.
42% : Stances on Medicare for AllHarris' relationship with Medicare for All was always tinged with a certain skepticism.
41% : She's a friend of mine, but her plan is not Medicare for All," Sanders told CNN ahead of the debates.
39% : ""We need to have Medicare for All," Harris said, adding that it was an issue she felt "very strongly" about.
37% : "The Trump camp's focus on Medicare for All is emerging as the centerpiece of a wider strategy to use Harris' 2020 primary positions against her now, less than 90 days before the general election.
35% : "Harris responded the next day at a fundraiser in Massachusetts, raising Trump's 2017 campaign to end Obamacare.
27% : "She wants to outlaw private health insurance," Trump said in late July at the conservative Turning Point Action's Believers' Summit in West Palm Beach.
23% : Kamala Harris may be done with Medicare for All, but Medicare for All - with a new nudge from former President Donald Trump - isn't done with her.
12% : Now, Trump is reviving the debate as he seeks to paint Harris as both a radical liberal and a flip flopper.
10% : Trump - who repeatedly attempted to repeal ACA, also known as Obamacare, without success and to significant electoral backlash - has never spelled out a clear plan of his own.

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