Biden Adopts Parts of the Sanders Agenda

[kurtcagle]

5. Ah, but Biden's too centrist for that (*cough*)

I think it's actually brilliant of Biden to give credit to Sanders for these, even if he had proposed them himself. First, it gives Biden the ability to say that he's working to let Sanders influence the platform, which will appeal to those who followed Sanders on the basis of his ideas, while at the same time cutting out the argument that those who are Sander bros will likely make that Biden wasn't responsive to their message. It is also a shoutout to Warren's followers who shared some of the same goals.

The key point going into the election is that if Biden wins, there will be a window of opportunity to fine-tune what Obamacare 2.0 will look like, especially as I suspect that the Covid-19 will provide context for people about healthcare that wasn't in place in 2010. As I'm pushing 57, the idea of Medicare at 60 looks real attractive right now