"I am tired of seeing Democrats defend a dysfunctional health care system"

[George II]

THAT was the subject line of an email from Sanders this morning. That is NOT going to get votes from many Democrats!!!

[TidalWave46]

2. From the campaign that compared Biden's healthcare proposal...

To a terrorist attack.

[George II]

3. Right, the WORST terrorist attack on our country. That was the work of David Sirota.

[TidalWave46]

6. It's only going to get worse.

It’s clear to me that they feel Democrats stupidity is the only reason they aren’t running away with it. Entitlement turned up to level 10.

[brewens]

4. The emphasis should be that we are already spending too much money and being ripped off.

One way or another, things have to shake out so we get health care for what we can afford to pay. If that means we cut out the middlemen and insurance company execs are out of a job, so be it. They do a crappy job for us anyway.

[wasupaloopa]

9. "We" aren't going to do anything like that. We are going to improve on the ACA. That is the

fastest way to get "health care for what we can afford to pay." And it is the fastest way to get to universal health care.

[brewens]

10. i'm thinking a very attractive public option where workers can opt that their money, that

their employers put into their healthcare, can instead be paid to get them into the public plan and as long as they work at that company.

[wasupaloopa]

12. Yes and if the lose that job they do not lose coverage while they are unemployed. Premiums would be

paid for them until they get back to work. The same if they were on parental leave or long term disability.

[brewens]

17. It's not taking away peoples health care if it runs the insurance companies out of

business. They could always do whatever it takes to be competitive, even if it means going not for profit and firing their overpaid execs.

[wasupaloopa]

20. I think insurance companies should be regulated more. It is within our ability to remove the bad

and keep the good.

[wasupaloopa]

5. Could have been written by any one of his toadies.

I think that kind of bull shit is meant to keep Bernie's base hanging in there. It helps them feel like they are the holy crusaders going against the big bad establishment.

Bernie is old news. His campaign hangs in there out of pure hatred and meanness.

[Dorn]

7. It got my vote

I've never met anyone who likes our current health care system.

[George II]

11. I've met many. Unfortunately many who don't "like" our current health care system....

....don't really understand how it works.

Many confuse "health care" with "health care insurance", two distinctly different things.

[Shell_Seas]

8. I agree. (Alhough, Bernie is far from my first pick). Can someone explain to me?

Why does anyone feel as if they would rather keep the private healthcare option, where they are paying a company money to profit on whether you are sick, or get the healthcare when you need it?

As someone who was a young teen mom and went over a decade with no health insurance at all, had been on private insurance, have gotten insurance through the exchange, AND gotten Medicaid from the state during my pregnancy...I can't figure it out for the life of me.

Even if you are one of the lucky ones who DO get health insurance through your job, most times you still have to be rich to afford the things that health insurance won't cover. Have an emergency surgery or a kid that has an accident, you may still be making payments 10 years later. I hate the healthcare in this country.

[LonePirate]

13. Plenty of DUers are defensive of our healthcare system and do not want to change it.

Between them and unanimous opposition on the right, those of us on the left who want to improve healthcare in this country have a tough road ahead.

[George II]

15. I think most if not all DUers want to improve what is called the "healthcare system".

[BlueMississippi]

14. Sanders is dissing Obama - AGAIN

Wasn't trying to primary Obama enough?

[aidbo]

16. I'm tired of seeing it too.

[PhoenixDem]

18. I suspect Sirota to be a republican and/or Russian agent

He should be investigated.

Nina Turner is stupid and probably on meth. Brihana Joy-Grey is just plain brainwashed -- but Sirota is the evil one who works to defeat Democrats.

[NYMinute]

19. K&R nt

[Hortensis]

21. Sanders' plan would take a good 7 years to roll out, 5 years

AFTER THE PLAN OF THOUSANDS OF PAGES WAS WRITTEN AND PASSED to fully implement by his OWN estimate. That's presuming it would be. Note that it could not be completed and in place within one presidential term, and the Republican leadership is determined to destroy all national healthcare plans.

In the meantime, though, Sander has already started voting to block improvements to the ACA to make it what it was always intended to be -- for purely political reasons. People already really like the ACA. Every improvement would lower support for the comparable plan that he is styling as HIS, not the Democratic Party's.

The last bill he joined McConnel to block in the senate would have lowered premiums, increased coverages, and made other improvements.

This is all part of why I regard what he's doing as highly immoral and harmful. Potentially disastrously so, but we're not going to let him gamble with our healthcare.

[Blue_true]

22. Why does Bernie always define every problem as caused by Democrats.

He could have said that he is tired of seeing "PEOPLE" defend a bad healthcare system. But he chose to put the blame only on democrats.

[herding cats]

23. Folks, we have to be smarter than this.

2020 is going to be much tougher than some people anticipate.

Focus, this isn't going to be the cake walk some seem to think it will. This is a referendum on Trump, not a pick nits moment for Dems. Got it?!