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Related: About this forumBernie's Damn Bill Pt. 1: What Is Medicare for All? (Narrated by H. Jon Benjamin)
Jan 22, 2020
From Roosevelts attempt to create a New Deal national health insurance program, to the Trump administrations repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate-the three-part Bernies Damn Bill video series reveals how decades of influence by greedy special interests have led to the present health care crisis.
Bernie has waged a four decades-long fight to implement Medicare for All and explains how his administration will take on corporations and the billionaire class to finally make it happen.
The series is narrated by H. Jon Benjamin, the accomplished voice actor who stars as Bob Belcher in Foxs Bobs Burgers and Sterling Archer in FXs Archer. Benjamin is an outspoken progressive advocate who is endorsing Bernies presidential campaign.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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Bernie's Damn Bill Pt. 1: What Is Medicare for All? (Narrated by H. Jon Benjamin) (Original Post)
Donkees
Jan 2020
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John Dingell SENIOR proposed something like this in 1943! That's 77 years ago.
George II
Jan 2020
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Donkees
(33,748 posts)1. Bernie's Damn Bill Pt. 2: How Did We Get Here? (Narrated by H. Jon Benjamin)
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)2. The US already has "Medicare for some".
So what is so threatening about Medicare for All?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Donkees
(33,748 posts)3. Bernie's Damn Bill Pt. 3: How to Pay for It (Narrated by H. Jon Benjamin)
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Thekaspervote
(35,824 posts)4. Once again...promises promises with no clear path to actual law
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
pfeiffer
(280 posts)5. Well actually...
there IS a clear path for this - straight through the middle class!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NCProgressive
(1,315 posts)6. It's not Bernie's bill
Sen. Ted Kennedy proposed this in 1971.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)7. John Dingell SENIOR proposed something like this in 1943! That's 77 years ago.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)8. It's NOT "Bernie's Damn Bill", be it Pt. 1, or Pt. 2, or Pt. 3. It was proposed a number of times..
...over the years by a number of Representative and Senators. Like other bills and proposals, it's a rehash of someone else's work.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden