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RandySF

(57,616 posts)
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 04:36 AM Feb 2020

Bernie distances himself from AOC's comments, says Medicare for All is 'already a compromise

Las Vegas (CNN)Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday night broke from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who in a recent interview suggested that passing a watered down version of "Medicare for All" in a deeply divided Congress would still represent a major achievement for the Democratic Party's progressive wing.

Asked about her comments by CNN's Anderson Cooper during a town hall in Las Vegas, Sanders gently disputed Ocasio-Cortez's framing of the situation, and argued that his legislation's four-year transition "is, in a sense, already a compromise."

"I love Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She has done more in her first year in Congress to transform politics, to get young people involved, than any freshman member of Congress that I can remember," Sanders said. "But my view is that Medicare for All, the bill that we wrote, is in a sense already a compromise. It is a four-year transition period."

Ocasio-Cortez, in an interview with HuffPost last week, acknowledged that the ambitious plan to wipe out the private insurance industry and replace it with a universal, government-run program would face a rocky road in Congress.

"A president can't wave a magic wand and pass any legislation they want," she said, before considering the alternative.

"The worst-case scenario? We compromise deeply and we end up getting a public option," she said of what could unfold during a Sanders presidency. "Is that a nightmare? I don't think so."


https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/18/politics/sanders-ocasio-cortez-compromise-medicare-for-all/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2020-02-20T08%3A32%3A05&utm_term=image&utm_source=twCNNp

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primary today, I would vote for:
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Wiser in youth than the old man RhodeIslandOne Feb 2020 #1
Ah, do you think that BlueMTexpat Feb 2020 #2
 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
1. Wiser in youth than the old man
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 04:41 AM
Feb 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

BlueMTexpat

(15,349 posts)
2. Ah, do you think that
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:44 AM
Feb 2020

AOC and the rest of "The Squad" will see the error of their ways anytime soon?

I really hope for this.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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