Pete Buttigieg’s Medicare-for-all-who-want-it plan, explained

Buttigieg is emphasizing choice in a plan that allows employer-sponsored and individual private insurance to remain.

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has released his first detailed health care plan on Thursday, designed to expand coverage, lower costs and offer Medicare “for all who want it” while stopping short of the single-payer Medicare-for-all overhaul preferred by Bernie Sanders.

In this presidential primary, center-left candidates like Buttigieg have been obliged to explain how they would expand US health care if they aren’t willing to endorse the Medicare-for-all plan supported by Sanders...