Article snippet: WASHINGTON — If there is anything that has changed in Senator Elizabeth Warren’s remarkably consistent campaign for president, it is how intensely and specifically she now embraces Medicare for All. She used to discuss it in broad and flexible terms, rattling off “different pathways” the country might take to an entirely government-funded health care system. By June, she said she was committed to Senator Bernie Sanders’ sweeping Medicare for All legislation, but offered few new details of her own, even when her rivals pushed her to explain how she would generate the trillions of dollars that it would cost. Her answers came Friday, when Warren released a 20-page proposal detailing how she would raise $20.5 trillion in new funding for a massive health care overhaul that she promised would not increase taxes on the middle class “by one penny.” But the battle over Medicare for All in the primary may only be beginning. Warren’s decision yokes her to an issue that energizes her liberal base but that, polling shows, is less popular with Democrats overall than a more moderate health care approach. That means Warren’s plan — her first detailed health care proposal — could leave her facing new political risks as the Iowa caucuses draw closer, because she will now have to ward off attacks from both Democrats and Republicans around the issue. “It’s core to what she believes, and what she thinks needs to happen. To go another route for her would have been a mistake,” said Je... Link to the full article to read more