What Went Down On Night Two Of The Second Democratic Debate

In 2007 and 2008, Obama attacked Clinton from the right on health care, and refused to endorse an individual mandate. So the ultimate ACA was in some ways to the left of what Obama proposed during the campaign. It’s hard to imagine that some of these proposals are to the left of what will actually be implemented.

I agree with Rakich that intra-party debate is healthy for parties and policy. But I also concur with Galen that this is getting pretty far in the weeds. Principles, priorities — yes. But numbers make for hard-to-follow audio, and is probably a level of detail not suited for this format.

I agree with this take. It was probably a bad idea to release a health care plan a few days before the debate when you don’t really know the ins-and-outs of how to defend it.