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Sanders endorsement unites most Dems on health policy

Modern Healthcare: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and President Barack Obama haven't always sung kumbaya when it comes to healthcare policy. But their solo tunes mostly harmonized Tuesday when Sanders finally endorsed Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

To win the Vermont senator's backing, Clinton tweaked her healthcare platform to more strongly embrace a public plan option in the Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges, sharply boost funding for federally qualified community health centers and the National Health Service Corps, and allow people to voluntarily buy in to Medicare at age 55. Those proposals helped ease the sting for Sanders and his supporters resulting from the Democratic Platform Committee's decision not to advocate a government single-payer system, the emotional heart of the Sanders campaign.

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