Buttigieg Health Plan Increases Subsidies, Caps Out-Of-Network Costs

Democratic presidential primary candidate Pete Buttigieg’s newly unveiled “Medicare for All who want it” proposal would create a public option with auto-enrollment, increase exchange subsidies and cap out-of-network costs at twice the Medicare rate. The public option-like plan , released by the South Bend, Indiana mayor on Thursday (Sept. 16), would not eliminate premiums, co-pays and deductibles, as other candidates’ Medicare for All proposals would do, and instead would cap costs at 8.5% of income. He would link subsidies to...