Editor's Note:

Next week, Democrats will convene their second round of presidential debates. As during last month’s debate, health care is sure to be a focus.

The candidates have sharpened their differences on the issue in recent days. Frontrunner Joe Biden released his vision for health reform — a sort of Obamacare on steroids — last week. He went to great pains to emphasize that people would be able to keep their private insurance under his plan. “If you like your health care plan, your employer-based plan, you can keep it,” he said.

Dr. Sally C. Pipes is president, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute. A former Canadian, she has been interviewed on ABC’s 20/20, FOX Business Network, CNN, FOX News’ “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” “Kudlow & Company” on CNBC, and numerous other prominent programs. She writes a bi-weekly health care column (“Piping Up”) for Forbes.com and is the author of two best-selling books on health insurance (The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care) and Health Law and Medicaid & Medicare (The Cure for Obamacare).