Joe Biden: People Who Like Their Employer Based Insurance They ‘Shouldn’t Have To Give It Up’

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BIDEN: "Yes, I’d bring back the individual mandate."
CUOMO: "You think that'd be popular?"
BIDEN: "Yes, now it would be, compared to what’s being offered. And here's the deal, Chris. We’re in a situation where if you provide an option for anybody who in fact wants to buy into Medicare-for-All, they can buy in. They buy in, and they can do it. But if they like their employer-based insurance, which a lot of unions broke their neck to get, a lot of people liked it, they shouldn’t have to give it up. The flip of it is, if you don’t go my way and go their way, you have to give up all of that. And what’s going to happen when you have 300 million people landing on a health care plan? How long is that going to take? What’s it going to do? And in the meantime, a lot of people are going to be in trouble. In terms of the economy, Chris, I’ve been proposing for a long time — look, I know I’m middle class Joe. I get that part. It doesn't mean I'm sophisticated. i mean, you know — the middle class built this country. You didn’t have Wall Street build this country. And how did they do it? You gave people a chance, you allowed them to maintain their dignity.”