Vice President Kamala Harris is on record stating she'd like to end private health insurance, Breitbart reported. This extremely unpopular position is one of many that will be problematic for the newly-minted presidential candidate.
In 2019, Harris championed all-out socialism as the senator representing California on her way to a presidential run. When asked about her plan for healthcare, Harris said she felt "very strongly" about switching completely to a government single-payer option.
"We need to have Medicare for all," Harris said. "We have to appreciate and understand that access to health care should not be thought of to be a privilege. It should be understood to be a right," Harris added.
Harris seemed adamant when giving her answer the first time she was a presidential hopeful. However, now that she's the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, Harris must answer for that record.
In 2019, GovTrack named her the most liberal senator, ranking her above avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). She and Sanders co-sponsored the "Medicare for All" bill, which would have eliminated the private health insurance option.
It was wildly unpopular with Americans and, therefore, rejected. This is an inconvenient fact in her past, as is GovTrack's concussion about her record that year.
In an effort to rehabilitate her image, the organization retracted its previous assessment of Harris that year. This comes as the vice president has also backpedaled on her radical plan for allowing a government takeover of the healthcare system.
Recently, campaign staffers told the New York Times that she doesn't support the single-payer option after all. This is just one of the many radical positions Harris is attempting to disavow just in time for the presidential election in November.
Harris leaned into her leftism while vying for a spot as the presidential nominee in 2020. It made her unpopular then and is sure to be her undoing this time around as well.
There are many problematic positions Harris took that she can't run from, even with the media and others changing history. Some of those include her tacit support of defunding police, her promise to "think about" dismantling Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and a "mandatory buyback program" for certain guns.
However, the one her opponent, former President Donald Trump, is hammering her with lately could have a profound impact on her chances in Pennsylvania. Harris is on the record saying she wants to ban fracking, which is an important industry in the Keystone State.
"She pledged to ban fracking — no fracking, oh, that’s going to do well in Pennsylvania, isn’t it? Remember, Pennsylvania, I said it. She wants no fracking. She’s on tape. The beautiful thing about modern technology is when you say something, you’re screwed if it’s bad," Trump said at a rally in Minnesota last weekend.
Harris will try her best to distance herself from her previous record on these issues to garner more votes. However, Trump is correct that it's all out there for the world to see, regardless of how Harris tries to pivot away from them.
