My scorecard for tonight's debate.

[Jakes Progress]

9. Wrong. That is a simple minded response.

Do you really think you get that employer "provide" insurance for free? How naive.

Costs. How do you cover everyone for less than Medicare. Those that say they can are the ones who are not truthful. The Affordable Care Act costs more than it was planned because the republicans gutted the part that required everyone to be covered. When you only have the poorest and most ill covered, you pay more. Do you not believe in universal health care? If so, be honest and tell us how you will pay for it.

What does "words against fact" mean? What fact? If you claim that paying profits for insurance companies, paying for redundant and extensive paperwork, and avoiding bargaining with drub companies will lower costs, you are not being factual.

It is ignoring reality and pretending that corporations have out best interests at heart it the tactics that trump uses. Why would someone who claims to be a Democrat do that?

You do not know what I will vote for. I will vote for the program that does the most good for the most people. If I were to indulge in your tactics, I would say that you will vote for anything that lets you keep your privileged status regardless of what hardships it imposes on others. (Of course you don't think you are paying for your employer insurance, so it is easy to see how you would think your status would be better if you got to keep paying to the insurance industry.)

Here's the sad thing. Biden and the others like Harris and Buttigieg are smart. They know that the cost to citizens will go down on M4A. They know that the cost for people like you that pay for their employer supplied plans along with the cost for those who will choose Medicare is more than if everyone were covered by Medicare. It is mathematical simplicity. Health coverage minus the insurance industry obscene profits and minus the paperwork will cost less. It's just a matter of whether you believe everyone deserves health care in our country.

Do you?