She is fronting something she has no answer how it would be paid for?
Bernie Sanders is up front is saying the all-inclusive healthcare coverage would raise American middle class taxes by trillions….
Is Warren up for raising taxes?
At the first Democratic debate, in June, Warren said, “I’m with Bernie on Medicare,” and she also raised her hand when the candidates were asked to indicate whether they favored getting rid of private health insurance. But she didn’t emphasize this in her over-all pitch, and she didn’t get pressed on it. Things changed after she began vying for the lead with Joe Biden in the polls. Front-runners get treated differently than mere contenders: the media scrutinizes everything they say and do, and their fellow-candidates try to take them down. During Tuesday’s debate, Biden, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar zeroed in on Warren’s apparent reluctance to acknowledge explicitly that taxes would go up as part of a Medicare for All plan. “We owe it to the American people to tell them where we will send the invoice,” Klobuchar said. In response to these criticisms, Warren restated her support for Medicare for All, but also tweaked it slightly, saying, “I will not sign a bill into law that does not lower costs for middle-class families.”
The debate left Warren with a dilemma. Should she stick to her current position, which is at least partly designed to avoid giving Trump and the Republicans a talking point—“Warren wants to raise your taxes”—or should she refine it in some way?…
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On Wednesday, Biden questioned Warren’s “credibility” and said, “She’s going to have to tell the truth or the question will be raised about whether or not she’s going to be candid and honest with the American people.” In an interview with CNN, Buttigieg claimed that, during the debate, Warren was “more specific and forthcoming about the number of selfies she’s taken than about how this plan is going to be funded.”
A second option is for Warren to provide more details about the sort of Medicare for All proposal she would support, and maybe even unveil one of her own. On Wednesday, her campaign took a small step in this direction. In a statement provided to CNN, it said that the candidate was “reviewing the revenue options suggested by the 2016 Bernie campaign along with other revenue options. But she will only support pay-fors that meet the principles she has laid out in multiple debates.” The CNN report said that the Warren campaign “declined to comment on whether Warren may eventually put out her own details on paying for Medicare for All.” The potential danger of proceeding down this path is that it might further enmesh Warren in the fiendish complexities of health-care reform,…
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What I noticed is that neither Kamala Harris nor Cory Booker even attempted to answer the question (or even take a position on Medicare-for-All vs adding a public option to Obamacare). Instead they riffed on women’s health and reproductive rights (which came up in a later question), no doubt partly to make sure that pro-choice Democratic women heard their position on those latter issues.
My take?….
They ALL except the moderates raised their hands for Holt in the first debate…
BUT?
Two things became problems…
Private ins plans and cost…
The private thing was fast on their cases right after the hand raising…
Biden immediately addressed the second issue…
Cost…
Sanders has NO problem as I have pointed out here….
Increased taxes….
Hundreds of Billions….
Polled out to Democrats?
OVERWHELMING support for Universal healthcare .medicare for ALL….
When the same people are asked about raising their taxes to do this….
Approval drops like a stone…
Healthcare as explained in the linked piece IS a quicksand issue….
I’m with Biden (Of course ) fix the existing healthcare program which IS a decade old ….
Republicans do NOT even mention the ‘R’ word anymore…
They don’t even have a replacement ….
Quietly?
Even Red states ARE using the Obnamcare medicare system…
In the end?
Obamacare is here to stay….