What Went Down In The Fourth Democratic Debate

Forty-one percent of Americans favor a Medicare for All health care system in which private insurance would be eliminated, while 67 percent favor allowing people under the age of 65 to buy health coverage through Medicare. Among Democratic primary voters, 63 percent are in favor of Medicare for All and 78 percent support giving people the option to buy in to Medicare, according to a September NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Up until now, Warren hasn’t really been attacked on the debate stage. This is something of a first. Buttigieg is going for it because he knows if he is going to gain in the polls, it’s going to come from Warren’s college-educated white base. He also wants to toe a line of not going too far and turning off those same voters.

Warren still refusing to say middle-class taxes might go up — she’s sticking to her line about overall costs for people’s health care going down.