Top Nancy Pelosi aide privately tells insurance executives not to worry about Democrats pushing “Medicare for All”
Less
than a month after Democrats — many of them running on “Medicare
for All” — won back control of the House of Representatives in
November, the top health policy aide to then-prospective House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Blue Cross Blue Shield executives and
assured them that party leadership had strong reservations about
single-payer health care and was more focused on lowering drug
prices, according to sources familiar with the meeting.
Pelosi
adviser Wendell Primus detailed five objections to Medicare for All
and said that Democrats would be allies to the insurance industry in
the fight against single-payer health care. Primus pitched the
insurers on supporting Democrats on efforts to shrink drug prices,
specifically by backing a number of measures that the pharmaceutical
lobby is opposing.
Primus,
in a slide presentation obtained by The Intercept, criticized single
payer on the basis of cost (“Monies are needed for other
priorities”), opposition (“Stakeholders are against; Creates
winners and losers”), and “implementation challenges.”
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