{"id":110505,"date":"2019-12-03T08:25:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T13:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/biden-mayor-pete-stole-my-health-plan\/"},"modified":"2019-12-03T08:25:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T13:25:27","slug":"biden-mayor-pete-stole-my-health-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/biden-mayor-pete-stole-my-health-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden: Mayor Pete \u2018Stole\u2019 My Health Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biden: Mayor Pete \u2018Stole\u2019 My Health Plan<\/b><\/p>\n

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Former Vice President Joe Biden accused Pete Buttigieg of \u201cstealing\u201d his health plan in remarks to reporters aboard his campaign bus in Iowa on Monday.<\/p>\n

Reuters reports<\/a>: \u201cBiden would add a \u2018public option,\u2019 allowing individuals to opt into a government plan but preserving the existing role for private insurers. Like Biden, Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, favors the public option and coined the phrase \u2018Medicare for all who want it\u2019 to describe the concept.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe stole it,\u201d said Biden, according<\/a> to media reports<\/a>, saying he would have been attacked by the press if he had done the same. \u201cWhat would you have done to me? You\u2019d have torn my ears off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reuters adds<\/a>: \u201cA spokesman for Buttigieg\u2019s campaign declined to comment but pointed to statements by Buttigieg about \u2018Medicare for all who want it\u2019 that pre-date Biden\u2019s current presidential campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden has until now refused to directly attack Buttigieg, telling reporters earlier this week<\/a>: \u201cAnything I say about Pete will be taken as maybe criticism or a negative about Pete, and I don\u2019t have any negative feelings about Pete at all. I think he\u2019s a talented guy<\/a>. I think the American people and people of Iowa are looking for somebody who doesn\u2019t need a whole lot of on-the-job training.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Biden: Mayor Pete ‘Stole’ My Health Plan<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n