“The fading of Medicare for All — one of the most promising ways to alter the way Americans think about the shortcomings of a radically privatized society — has in turn probably reduced the likelihood of the badly needed compromise of a public insurance option,” he wrote in a July 28 op-ed, “How ‘Medicare for All’ became a casualty of the Biden era.”
Mr. Aleem argued President Joe Biden has set aside efforts to reform healthcare to focus on other issues, even leaving the reform policy of a public healthcare option out of his latest budget proposal.
“Even if his administration were somehow secretly interested in the concept, he’s currently working with a Senate Democratic majority so slim that a policy as sweeping and polarizing as Medicare for All — which would require a 60-vote majority to overcome a filibuster — is simply a political impossibility,” he wrote.
