Schultz Walks Back Denunciation Of Medicare For All As 'Un-American'

[DonViejo]

By Kate Riga
January 30, 2019 9:24 am

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz walked back his denunciation of Medicare for all Tuesday night, downgrading his insult from “un-American” to “unaffordable.”

“It’s not that it’s not American,” Schultz told CNN’s Poppy Harlow. “It’s unaffordable.”

“What I believe is that every American has the right to affordable health care as a statement,” he added.

Schultz giveth, Schultz taketh away. To replace Medicare for all, he labeled a new thing un-American during the interview: that Dreamers don’t have a pathway to citizenship.

Read more on Schultz’s consistent verbal tic here.

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[MontanaMama]

1. There is a reason this guy has surfaced now.

Malcolm Nance said as much this morning on Stephanie Miller. Whatever his motives...and we WILL find out what they are...they aren’t for the best interest of average Americans. That alone should disqualify him.

[pangaia]

5. Good observation..... we will see...

BTW, I wouldn't go into a starfucks except to use the bathroom,, same with McD, BK.

OK When I am depressed and off my healthy diet I HAVE been known to get an ARBY'S ! Why is that, I wonder....

[flor-de-jasmim]

9. Colbert put Arby's into your mind, perhaps??

[pangaia]

18. Didn't waatch Colbert.. So.. who knows...

[Ohiogal]

12. I do the same!

For some reason I get a craving for an Arby’s occasionally. And I absolutely never eat any other fast food, ever. Why is that?

[pangaia]

19. Must be the salt, sugar, fat, beef addiction

For a while a few years ago ir was WENDY'S Spicy Chicken sanddwich,
Niw that is REALLY the bottom of the pit.

soggy letuce, mayo, salt fat sugar...

[PSPS]

13. He's pimping his new book, that's all.

Well, that and further reduce what little he pays in taxes.

[Goodheart]

15. He called trump "despicable" in that interview, so

I don't think he's a Russian or trump plant... he's just got a giant ego that thinks his own views should be soooooo heard. And he's trying to protect his money.

[The Truth Is Here]

2. Too late.

Non-starter!

[stonecutter357]

3. we already have a putin puppet no need for two !

[CrispyQ]

4. It's not affordable because corporations, which aren't even people, & their fat cat officer enablers

don't pay their fair share in taxes.

[HopeAgain]

6. How about he walk back

this whole foray into politics? The guy who brought us the three Dollar cup of coffee.

[theaocp]

7. Wrong, clown.

It is affordable. He is a fraud and needs to be IGNORED. Thus, the media will continue to fawn over him.

[vlyons]

8. What a muddled-headed, vain, platitude bullshitter

For starters, a "right" to healthcare is not the same as healthcare. We all of us already have a "right" to as much healthcare as we can afford. What we want and need is ACCESS to affordable and sufficient healthcare. Not once, has Schultz given any details about his proposal about healthcare, except he would have healthcare professionals work with congress. That is not a plan, much less a vision. Never says what, if any, private insurance would play.

Like Big Pharma wants to work with congress? Ha!!!

[C_U_L8R]

10. Amateur hour

He should run for town council or something more to his level.
Maybe he'd learn a thing or two about public service.

[Taraman]

11. Why is he even part of the conversation?

If he wants to "reform" the Democratic Party -- run as a Democrat!

Another billionaire worried about the "radical left"... So obvious on the face of it. Honestly, I feel the same way about Bloomberg.

[democratisphere]

14. But we can afford a $1.5 trillion dollar additional debt to provide

people like Schultz with a tax cut. Schultz won't last as a prospective candidate.

[Yavin4]

16. What's "affordable" to him is not going to be "affordable" to most people. n/t

[redstatebluegirl]

17. Once he realizes his views hurt his brand he will quit.

He won't let it cost his business at all. I won't set foot in one of those stores again, period.