Article snippet: At Monday’s CNN’s town hall event in Iowa, CNN host Jake Tapper explicitly asked Harris if people who like their insurance will lose their private insurance under her Medicare-for-all proposal. Harris replied: After getting backlash from even fellow Democrats, Harris’s camp tried to walk back her remarks on Tuesday evening, with her press secretary Ian Sams telling CNN: “Medicare-for-all is the plan that she believes will solve the problem and get all Americans covered. Period… She has co-sponsored other pieces of legislation that she sees as a path to getting us there, but this is the plan she is running on.” Kaczynski, linking to his network’s scoop about Harris’s backtracking, initially tweeted: “NEW: Kamala Harris is backtracking on her calls to eliminate all private health insurance in supporting Medicare for all, with an advisor and her spokesman saying she’s open to more moderate plans preserving the private health insurance industry.” After getting pushback from Harris’s campaign, he said he was deleting his original tweet “because multiple Harris campaign spokespeople would like it clarified. Harris said at CNN’s town hall she supports eliminating private health insurance. Her campaign advisor would like to emphasize she’s also open to bills that [preserve] private health care.” Here’s CNN’s transcript of the exchange: Kaczynski was quick to delete a tweet that made Harris look bad, but CNN personalities like Jim Sciutto have left up “fake news” tweets a... Link to the full article to read more