Kamala Harris flip-flops on private health insurance and says she wants undocumented immigrants to get Medicare
Sen. Kamala Harris, the California Democrat and 2020 presidential candidate, said she doesn’t support eliminating all private health insurance under Medicare-for-all after suggesting in January that she does.
Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday that “supplemental” private health insurance wouldn’t be eliminated under Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-all legislation, which she has co-sponsored and would phase out private insurance in favor of government insurance.
This comes after Harris suggested she supports getting rid of all private insurance during a January town hall.