Analysis: Value of private health coverage is up for debate
WASHINGTON - Sharp disagreements among the presidential hopefuls at this week's debates have crystallized a crucial and explosive political question: Are Democrats willing to upend health coverage for tens of millions of their fellow Americans?
The party is closer than it's been in decades to embracing a healthcare platform that would move all Americans out of their current insurance and into a single government-run plan.
Plans pushed by three of the four leading candidates - Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kamala Harris of California - differ in their particulars but would all end the job-based system that provides coverage to more than 150 million people.
That's a hugely risky
