President Biden\u2019s House Democrat challenger for the White House is endorsing the progressive policy of \u2018Medicare-for-All.\u2019<\/p>\n
Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., threw his hat behind the controversial state-provided free healthcare policy in a recent interview amid his challenge against Biden for his job.<\/p>\n
Phillips said he was signing on to the bill led by House Progressive Caucus chairwoman Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., with his staff saying the congressman would sign onto the bill Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Phillips, a member of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus who has long been considered a centrist, had not signed onto the proposal before.<\/p>\n
His signature on the bill shows him moving toward the progressive wing of the party. The congressman told Politico that his policy shift did not have anything to do with his presidential bid against Biden.<\/p>\n
However, Phillips\u2019 endorsement of the policy puts him in stark contrast to Biden amid his White House challenge against the president.<\/p>\n
Biden refused to endorse socializing healthcare during the 2020 presidential election \u2014 even as his eventual running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, did. Prior to his election, he indicated during an MSNBC interview that he would veto Medicare-for-All legislation as president over its price tag.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital reached out to Biden\u2019s campaign for comment.<\/p>\n
Phillips also said he has his issues with the plan, such as prohibiting almost all private health insurance.<\/p>\n
The Democratic congressman said his \u2018journey\u2019 to endorsing the plan was \u2018a long one.\u2019 Phillips said he took his healthcare access for granted until he saw uninsured children battling cancer after his daughter\u2019s Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma diagnosis almost 10 years ago. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The issue entered his mind again in 2016 when he opened up coffee shops and found it \u2018profoundly disappointing\u2019 that he could not afford health insurance for his part-time employees.<\/p>\n
Phillips also took another look at the policy after being elected in 2018 to represent the district that headquarters UnitedHealth Group.<\/p>\n
\u2018I started to recognize this massive disconnect between the behemoths in the health insurance business and then the people that I represented, who were telling me the most horrifying stories about having their coverage denied or having to take on medical debt or going bankrupt,\u2019 Phillips told Politico.<\/p>\n
\u2018I have a progressive heart, a pragmatic head, and want to work with people on both sides of the aisle to achieve better outcomes for the country that both improve care and lower costs,\u2019 he added. \u2018Those are the best combinations of progressive and conservative principles I could possibly imagine, and that makes this proposition remarkably centrist.\u2019<\/p>\n
Phillips declined to say how \u2018Medicare-for-All\u2019 would be paid.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital reached out to Phillips\u2019 campaign for comment.<\/p>\n\n
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