The lowering of the Medicare age from 65 to 60 is a small step compared with the universal, government-run “Medicare for all” plan that Mr. Sanders has championed, but a symbolically significant one given that Mr. Sanders has made expanding access to health care a centerpiece of his agenda.
Mr. Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan — which would eliminate student debt for low-income and middle-class people who attended public colleges and universities, historically black colleges and universities, and other institutions that serve students of color — also does not go as far as Mr. Sanders’s plan to eliminate all student debt.
Mr. Sanders and Mr. Biden have sounded similar notes of alignment in their public appearances in the last day. Speaking to Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show,” Mr. Sanders acknowledged on Wednesday night that “Joe, he’s not going to adopt my platform. I got that.”
“But if he can move in that direction,” Mr. Sanders added, “I think people will say this is a guy that we should support and will support.”
Mr. Biden, speaking to donors at a Wednesday fund-raiser via videoconference, called Mr. Sanders “a powerful voice for a fairer and more just America” and previewed the incorporation of some elements of the Sanders agenda into his own.
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