evidence: More moderate candidates, like Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, accuse Warren and Sanders of taking an ideologically hardline on the issue of healthcare, and argue that a better way forward is to provide a public option for healthcare while maintaining a private insurance market. They argue that a public option plan would preserve choice, cost less, and is more palatable for the American public. Mayor Pete is particularly adept at presenting his plan, "Medicare for All Who Want It", as a middle-ground solution that offers the best of both worlds. [...] As one of the top contenders running in the moderate lane, Mayor Pete has emerged as a vocal critic of a single-payer system, despite acknowledging that he would eventually like to see us get there. The fact that he frequently misrepresents his competitors single-payer proposals while pushing a policy that creates the illusion of choice is bad enough. What’s worse is that he does so behind a guise of good-faith policy disagreement, all the while securing millions in campaign funding from insurance industry executives. [...] But make no mistake. This is big, structural change. Our health care system is broken. It needs to be disrupted. Lives are at stake.