Delaney on Face the Nation: Warren and Other Democratic Rivals Have Outsourced Their Health Care Plan to Senator Sanders

WASHINGTON, DC – In an interview with Margaret Brennan this morning on Face The Nation, John Delaney criticized his Democratic rivals for supporting Medicare for All, stating that Senator Warren and others have “outsourced their health care plan to Bernie Sanders” and embraced a plan that will ultimately be rejected by the country, to the detriment of the Democratic Party. 
 
Delaney’s health care plan, BetterCare, creates universal health care but allows people to opt out and purchase private insurance or supplementals. Last month, in the Washington Post, Delaney wrote that Medicare for All would be “political suicide” for the Democratic Party. 
 
Here is the transcript on health care from today’s interview:
 
MARGARET BRENNAN: Health care is your signature issue as- as I know. And in the last debate, you said "Medicare-for-All" is not good policy and it's not good politics. 
 
DELANEY: Yes. 
 
MARGARET BRENNAN: But more than eight of the candidates of the 24 or 25 now, support this. Are- are voters just being misled by your fellow Democratic candidates?
 
DELANEY: Yeah, I think they're wrong. I mean, look at so many of the candidates, Senator Warren, so many of these people have outsourced their health care plan to Bernie Sanders, right? Because this is Bernie Sanders's plan. And it will take private insurance away from more than half of the country and they will reject that if we run on that. It will- it will also reduce quality and access in our health care system because Medicare doesn't reimburse sufficiently to keep all the hospitals--
 
MARGARET BRENNAN: You were--
 
DELANEY: --and providers. 
 
MARGARET BRENNAN: --booed on the debate stage when you raised this, though, so--
 
DELANEY: I understand that.
 
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, it does seem popular at least with people who vote in primaries.
 
DELANEY: But here's the thing. "Medicare-for-All" is a great slogan. They've hijacked the good name of Medicare and applied it to a law that will cause upheaval in our health care system and I- I was the first person to actually talk about this. Now we're seeing the debate change on this issue as people start to realize. My plan which is called "Better Care" is a universal health care plan. Every single American gets health care as a basic right of citizenship for free. But I preserve options if people want to opt out and keep their private insurance. They can if they want to buy supplemental plans. They can. It's a much better way to create a universal health care system.