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Topic: Medicare for All Who Want It

Democratic presidential candidates South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and former Vice President Joe Biden (Scott Olson/Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Biden: Mayor Pete "stole" my health plan

Shira Tarlo
Democratic presidential hopeful Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks during the fourth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by The New York Times and CNN at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio on October 15, 2019. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Rivals attack Warren over health care

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US Senator Elizabeth Warren (C), Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks with US Senator Bernie Sanders (2nd R), Independent from Vermont, as they discusses Medicare for All legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2017. The former US presidential hopeful introduced a plan for government-sponsored universal health care, a notion long shunned in America that has newly gained traction among rising-star Democrats. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

What a public option could look like

Shira Tarlo
Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden (Getty/Salon)

Biden unveils plan to expand Obamacare

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A volunteer hands out a poster as Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders was set to address a “Medicare for All” rally in downtown Columbia, S.C. on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018 (AP/Meg Kinnard)

What Medicare for All would look like

Shira Tarlo
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduces the Medicare for All Act of 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The meaning of "Medicare for All" varies

Shira Tarlo