Oh My Lord What a Shockingly Ruthless Attack on Joe Biden
The healthcare conversation during Thursday’s 2020 Democratic presidential debate was mostly sour and infuriating. Then Julián Castro blew it all up, and took Joe Biden along with him.
Up until that point, Biden had mostly been tangling with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. You know how this goes by now: Biden leveling disingenuous attacks on Medicare for All, Warren and Sanders parrying, George Stephanopoulos asking bad questions. (Pete Buttigieg also managed to throw in a remarkably conservative answer on healthcare…he sucks.)
At one point, Biden said this about the public portion of his healthcare plan: