民主党总统候选人Pete Buttigieg周日表示，他提议的公共医疗保健计划对美国人来说比现有的私人选择“更好”，但他将其与2020年竞争者参议员伯尼桑德斯和伊丽莎白沃伦的说法区别开来，他说他不会“命令美国人“为所有人提供医疗保险。
“我们需要确保我们有一个让所有人都能得到满足的愿景，”目前担任印第安纳州南本德市市长的Buttigieg周日在接受美国有线电视新闻网国情咨文采访时说，他被问及即将到来的医疗保健计划。他说：“我对所有想要医疗保险的人的看法与桑德斯，沃伦的愿景有所不同 - 我认为我们可以做到这一点而不是让美国人接受这种公共选择。”
Buttigieg断言他认为他的公共替代医疗保健计划“可能会比所有私人计划更好”。但候选人表示，他相信“美国人民自己做出这个决定”。
虽然South Bend市长尚未发布全面的医疗保健提案，但他一直认为全国范围内可以存在全民医保计划，而私人保险替代方案仍然可用。
在桑德斯和沃伦的愿景下，所有美国人都将转变为公共医疗保健计划，他们指出这是许多其他发达国家和富裕国家的常态。他们的Medicare-for-all版本仍允许私人保险存在，为公共医疗保健计划未涵盖的任何事项提供补充保险，但不允许重复私人保险。
沃伦因支持桑德斯提案而不是创造自己的提案而受到一些批评。批评者指出，她是几乎所有事情都有计划的候选人，但在医疗保健方面，她已经推迟了她的同伴进步竞争者。
“我支持全民医保。我认为这是一个很好的计划。看来，我支持很多计划 - 人们已经提出了其他的事情。当他们做好计划时，让我们这样做，”沃伦告诉CBS上周新闻。“这不是某种竞赛，我首先想到的是。这对美国人来说是最好的，”她补充道。
在大多数民意调查中，前副总统乔·拜登（Joe Biden）目前是民主党总统候选人提名的主要候选人，他一直高度批评其他民主党候选人提出的全民医保计划。他一直主张扩大“平价医疗法案”（ACA），俗称奥巴马医改法案，后来他的前任老板巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）的政府通过法律。
拜登将ACA替换为总统唐纳德特朗普和共和党试图取消奥巴马医改的全部医疗保险。他认为它会摆脱奥巴马医改，这是他不会支持的。批评者对拜登所描述的医疗保险的特征提出了质疑，但是他认为这会让一些美国人没有保险，而事实上它会取代现有的保险范围。
PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS HE WON'T 'ORDER AMERICANS' ONTO PUBLIC INSURANCE LIKE ELIZABETH WARREN AND BERNIE SANDERS
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday that his proposed public healthcare plan would be "better" for Americans than current private options, but he differentiated it from that of fellow 2020 contenders Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, by saying he wouldn't "order Americans" onto Medicare-for-all.
"We need to make sure that we have a vision that gets everybody covered," Buttigieg, who is currently the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said Sunday during an interview with CNN's State of the Union when he was asked about his forthcoming health care plan. "The difference in my vision of Medicare-for-all who want it – versus Sanders, Warren vision – is I think we can do that and not order Americans onto that public alternative," he said.
Buttigieg asserted that he thinks his public alternative health care plan "will probably be better than all of the private plans." But the candidate said that he trusts "the American people to make that decision for themselves."
Although the South Bend mayor has yet to release a comprehensive health care proposal, he has long argued that a Medicare-for-all plan can exist nationwide, while private insurance alternatives remain available.
Under the vision of Sanders and Warren, all Americans would be transitioned to a public health care plan, which they point out is the norm in many other developed and wealthy nations. Their version of Medicare-for-all would still allow private insurance to exist to provide supplemental coverage for anything not covered by the public health care plan, but it would not allow for duplicate private coverage.
Warren has received some criticism for backing Sanders proposal instead of creating her own. Critics have pointed out that she is the candidate with a plan for almost everything, but when it comes to health care, she has deferred to that of her fellow progressive contender.
"I support Medicare-for-all. I think it's a good plan. And look, I support a lot of plans — other things that people have come up with. When they're good plans, let's do it," Warren told CBS News last week. "This isn't some kind of contest [where] I got to think of mine first. It's what's best for the American people," she added.