Kamala Harris needs to get her sh!t together on Healthcare, otherwise it will badly damage her.

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40. This is what I don't like about her plan, although I like the general idea

What this would mean I think is that an individual would be free to pay for her own insurance. If so, that is a huge drawback to Harris’s plan. Not only do many employers offer a group plan, which lowers the premium and ups the coverage, but these plans can carry over in retirement, at which point they supplement Medicare to provide 100 percent coverage.

Polling has made it clear that the American people want a public option, but they want it just that - optional. They want to continue with their private insurance, usually through their employer, but have the public option as a fall-back plan in case of outrageously rising rates or job loss. So while I think the idea of maintaining private plans is good, her idea to make them only Medicare Advantage-type plans on top of MFA doesn't seem like it would be appealing to many people.

Perhaps she could alter her plan in that direction, but I worry that it may already be too late for a significant change. If she does make the change, I hope she has time for her numbers to recover before Iowa. (It probably needs to be a very good change for that to happen.)

Above all else, regardless of whether she changes, or whatever plan she ends up with, she needs to own it and be able to strongly defend it. What she's done so far is wishy-washy and weak.