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still_one

(98,883 posts) Tue Dec 17, 2019, 09:46 AM Dec 2019

Warren tempers Medicare for all calling it a choice [View all]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-17/warren-tempers-medicare-for-all-rhetoric-calling-it-a-choice?srnd=premium

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Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is starting to back away from a full-blown Medicare for All plan on the campaign trail, as she faces increased questions about whether her support for the proposal hurts her electability.

After pushing the swift creation of a government-run health care system that would cover all Americans and eliminate private insurance, Warren is now emphasizing her calls for a transition period that would make it optional for most of her first term in office.”

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

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Warren tempers Medicare for all calling it a choice [View all] still_one Dec 2019 OP

Warren is agile and smart! eom at140 Dec 2019 #1

This is the very reason she is plunging in the polls. Say what you want about Bernie, but at least Skya Rhen Dec 2019 #2

Including a 2yr transition period to get to Med4All is not the problem, it's those blm Dec 2019 #7

Actually, the problem is her downward trajectory in the polls. Skya Rhen Dec 2019 #8

After a concerted effort by certain camps who called her a liar and a hypocrite blm Dec 2019 #13

Bernie's bill has a 4-yr transition with a PO and uber-generous features with no pay-fors BeyondGeography Dec 2019 #12

This. eom BlueMTexpat Dec 2019 #16

What is a shame is how others are harmed when they R B Garr Dec 2019 #9

Per a poll that you BlueMTexpat Dec 2019 #15

... NYMinute Dec 2019 #3

Of course there'd be a transitional period--there'd have to be. Like the move from fossil fuels ... Auggie Dec 2019 #4

Love this. The sign of a leader. NT TidalWave46 Dec 2019 #5

Same position she's taken before... brooklynite Dec 2019 #6

Mandated Medicare-for-All is a loser in General Election, no matter how she, or others, couch it. Hoyt Dec 2019 #10

Good LovingLife Dec 2019 #11

Thanks for your BlueMTexpat Dec 2019 #17

Realistic plans TexasTowelie Dec 2019 #14