Can Yang Do for UBI What Bernie Did for ‘Medicare for All’?

Can Yang Do for UBI What Bernie Did for 'Medicare for All'?

With 14 Democrats campaigning for president on some version of “Medicare for All,” it’s hard to remember that a single-payer health care system was considered a pipe dream when Bernie Sanders raised it just four years ago. Hillary Clinton told Iowans it would “never, ever come to pass,” and most political insiders agreed. That’s fundamentally changed since President Donald Trump’s election. Today, another underdog issue might similarly hit the mainstream, courtesy of an outsider candidate with a devoted fan base: entrepreneur Andrew Yang.

Universal basic income (UBI), long confined to the outer stretches of policy papers , is the central […]

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