Two-Man Race Puts Biden’s Healthcare Plan in the Spotlight

Ed Dolan
4 min readMar 6, 2020

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The race for the Democratic nomination for President has now become a one-on-one affair, Joe Biden vs. Bernie Sanders. Sanders has made his healthcare plan — Medicare for All — the centerpiece of his campaign. Biden’s alternative — a variant of the public option approach — has received less publicity. It’s time for an update, based partly on a longer commentary on Biden’s plan that I wrote…

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Ed Dolan

Economist, Senior Fellow at Niskanen Center, Yale Ph.D. Interests include environment, health care policy, social safety net, economic freedom.