25 September 2019 - The senator from Massachusetts, who is big on detail, has no plan of her own.

Speaking to a crowd of 20,000 from beneath the enormous arch of Washington Square Park in New York City last week, Elizabeth Warren received the loudest cheers when she declared: “I know what’s broken, and I’ve got a plan to fix it”. 

In a Democratic presidential primary contest in which there has been little movement in the candidates’ positions in the polls, Ms Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, has engineered an exceptional rise, thanks in part to her plans, both wonkish and attention-grabbing: universal child care, a wealth tax, a $2 trillion climate-change plan and the breaking up of America’s biggest technology firms. But on health care—which is likely to be a big issue in 2020—Ms Warren does not have a plan of her own. Nor does she appear to have a plan to release one.

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