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Charles Booker’s Movement To Paint Kentucky Blue Is Only Just Beginning
4 years, 5 months ago

Charles Booker’s Movement To Paint Kentucky Blue Is Only Just Beginning

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Kentucky state Rep. Charles Booker narrowly lost the state's Democratic Senate primary in June. “There are hundreds of Kentuckians and thousands of folks across the country that are ready to do their part however they can, and we’ve gotta keep that energy going,” Booker said. “We’re fully committed to that, because we gotta get him out of the way so …

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The Latest: Buttigieg sick, cancels several Florida events
4 years, 10 months ago

The Latest: Buttigieg sick, cancels several Florida events

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Latest on the 2020 Democratic primary contest : 11:45 p.m. Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has cancelled four events in south Florida set for Wednesday because of illness. The other Jewish candidate onstage, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, said, “You can’t move the embassy back.” Instead, he said, “The answer is to obviously split …

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The Latest: Sanders: Democrat with most delegates should win
4 years, 10 months ago

The Latest: Sanders: Democrat with most delegates should win

Associated Press  

LAS VEGAS — The latest on the 2020 presidential campaign and Democratic debat e : 8 p.m. Bernie Sanders is the only Democratic candidate on the debate stage who thinks the candidate with the most delegates should win the party’s presidential nomination even if he or she doesn’t have a majority. Are you mocking me, Pete?” Elizabeth Warren defended Klobuchar …

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Progressive Group Announces Digital Ad Campaign Against Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden
4 years, 11 months ago

Progressive Group Announces Digital Ad Campaign Against Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden

Huff Post  

Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, left, shakes hands with former Vice President Joe Biden after the Democratic presidential debate in October. “Americans need to know about Biden’s and Buttigieg’s records and their relationships with corporate executives and donors,” Alexandra Rojas, executive director of Justice Democrats and president of Organize for Justice’s board, said in a statement. Organize for …

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Medicare for All? A Public Option? Health Care Terms, Explained
4 years, 11 months ago

Medicare for All? A Public Option? Health Care Terms, Explained

NPR  

Health Care Terms, Explained Enlarge this image toggle caption The Washington Post/Getty Images The Washington Post/Getty Images If the last few Democratic presidential debates are any guide, tonight's will likely delve into health care proposals. According to one poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 87% of Democrats support "Medicare for All," while 64% of Democrats support "single-payer health care." The …

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The Campaign Against 'Medicare For All' Is Spending Millions. Progressives Not So Much.
5 years ago

The Campaign Against 'Medicare For All' Is Spending Millions. Progressives Not So Much.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The most hotly debated policy in the Democratic presidential primary is “Medicare for All” ― a plan to move all Americans onto a single, government-run health insurance plan. The Partnership for America’s Health Care Future ― an industry front group representing private health insurers, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies ― has spent at least $1 million in television …

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Warren says getting to ‘Medicare for All’ will take 3 years
5 years, 1 month ago

Warren says getting to ‘Medicare for All’ will take 3 years

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren announced Friday that she would expand public health insurance during her first 100 days in office, but wouldn’t push for passage of a “Medicare for All” program until the third year of her presidency, a timeline that acknowledges how tough it will be to shift to a system of government-run health care. It includes dramatic actions …

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Here's How Warren Finds $20.5 Trillion To Pay For 'Medicare For All'
5 years, 2 months ago

Here's How Warren Finds $20.5 Trillion To Pay For 'Medicare For All'

NPR  

Here's How Warren Finds $20.5 Trillion To Pay For 'Medicare For All' Enlarge this image toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Scott Olson/Getty Images Sen. Elizabeth Warren says paying for "Medicare for All" would require $20.5 trillion in new federal spending over a decade. How Warren wants to reduce spending Warren bases her plan off of a recent analysis from the …

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“Medicare for All” is becoming a political quagmire for Elizabeth Warren.
5 years, 2 months ago

“Medicare for All” is becoming a political quagmire for Elizabeth Warren.

Slate  

One of the reasons that Bernie Sanders has been a fairly effective advocate for single-payer health care is that he hasn’t focused too hard on how to pay for it. These days, Sanders says there will eventually be a “vigorous debate” about how to pay for “Medicare for All.” Onstage he tells audiences that, yes, their taxes will go up, …

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A Magic Document Won't Save Elizabeth Warren From The Deficit Scolds
5 years, 2 months ago

A Magic Document Won't Save Elizabeth Warren From The Deficit Scolds

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Warren’s plan schtick is effective because each one helps convince voters that a big, relatively simple idea is also politically and economically feasible. But there’s one plan that Warren doesn’t need and that won’t help her get elected ― and that’s a plan to pay for her “Medicare for All” proposal without significantly raising taxes on the …

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“Medicare for All” is giving Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg headaches.
55 years ago

“Medicare for All” is giving Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg headaches.

Slate  

Something was different in September 2017 when Sen. Bernie Sanders held a press conference to unveil his latest version of single-payer, or “Medicare for All,” legislation. As of now, among the contenders who have even a microscopic chance of winning, only Sanders and Warren still support single-payer health care legislation, the former more effusively than the latter. Warren’s most notable …

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Elizabeth Warren Doubles Down On 'Medicare For All' In Interview With Dying Activist
5 years, 3 months ago

Elizabeth Warren Doubles Down On 'Medicare For All' In Interview With Dying Activist

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren delivered an impassioned explanation of her support for a “Medicare for All,” single-payer health care system in an interview with terminally ill progressive activist Ady Barkan. Watch Ady Barkan’s interview with Sen. Elizabeth Warren: But beyond affirming her support for Medicare for All, Warren addressed criticism from left-wing activists who question her …

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Sanders: Medicare for All means more taxes, better coverage
5 years, 4 months ago

Sanders: Medicare for All means more taxes, better coverage

Associated Press  

FLORENCE, S.C. — Health care was the focus of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ second day of campaigning in pivotal early-voting South Carolina, where lack of Medicaid expansion has left thousands unable to obtain health coverage. Nationwide, 55% of Democrats and independent voters who lean Democratic said in a poll last month they’d prefer building on President Barack Obama’s Affordable …

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John Delaney Actually Perfectly Embodies How the “Medicare for All” Movement Has Succeeded
55 years ago

John Delaney Actually Perfectly Embodies How the “Medicare for All” Movement Has Succeeded

Slate  

If you want to understand how the Medicare for All movement has utterly transformed the Democratic debate about health care—and why it’s almost certainly doomed to fail in Congress—consider John Delaney. On Tuesday, Warren accused him of recycling Republican talking points, and later leveled him with her most memorable line of the night: “You know,” she said, “I don’t understand …

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Sanders, Warren clash with moderates over ‘Medicare for All’
5 years, 5 months ago

Sanders, Warren clash with moderates over ‘Medicare for All’

Associated Press  

DETROIT — The signature domestic proposal by the leading progressive candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination came under withering attack from moderates in a debate that laid bare the struggle between a call for revolutionary policies and a desperate desire to defeat President Donald Trump. Standing side by side at center stage on Tuesday, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren slapped …

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2020 Dems grapple with how to pay for ‘Medicare for All’
5 years, 5 months ago

2020 Dems grapple with how to pay for ‘Medicare for All’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates trying to appeal to progressive voters with a call for “Medicare for All” are wrestling with the thorny question of how to pay for such a dramatic overhaul of the U.S. health care system. “It’s not just the rich” who would be hit with new cost burdens to help make single-payer health insurance a reality, …

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Sanders defends ‘Medicare for All’ after criticism by Biden
5 years, 5 months ago

Sanders defends ‘Medicare for All’ after criticism by Biden

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders vigorously defended his signature “Medicare for All” proposal Wednesday after criticism from his 2020 rival Joe Biden and called on his fellow Democratic presidential candidates to join him in refusing to accept contributions from the health care industry. Saying he wanted to address “some of the half-truths” and “outright lies” about his single-payer health care plan, …

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Medicare for All gets push from medical students, nurses
5 years, 7 months ago

Medicare for All gets push from medical students, nurses

CNN  

CNN — The American Medical Association is coming under increasingfire for opposing “Medicare for All.” Energized by the growing attention on universal health care in the 2020 presidential campaign and in Congress, medical students, nurses and other activists are expected to rally Saturday at the AMA’s annual meeting in Chicago to urge its leadership to change its position. Nearly two …

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Democrats grapple with fully embracing Medicare for All
5 years, 7 months ago

Democrats grapple with fully embracing Medicare for All

Associated Press  

MASON CITY, Iowa — A half-dozen presidential candidates back “Medicare for All,” a proposal that would put the government in charge of most health benefits. In more than two dozen interviews across three early-voting states, most Democratic voters told The Associated Press that they’re open to a more incremental approach toward single-payer health care that starts with making government-run insurance …

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Single-Payer Advocate Ady Barkan Shines At Historic 'Medicare For All' Hearing
5 years, 8 months ago

Single-Payer Advocate Ady Barkan Shines At Historic 'Medicare For All' Hearing

Huff Post  

WASHINGTON ― The first congressional hearing ever on “Medicare for All” began with a moving moment Tuesday, as single-payer hero Ady Barkan delivered an impassioned speech through an emotionless computer voice. It means that we can finally start to eliminate the atrocious racial and economic disparities that destroy so many lives, that rob our communities of so much dignity, that …

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Democrats Add Single-Payer Champion Ady Barkan To 'Medicare For All' Hearing
5 years, 8 months ago

Democrats Add Single-Payer Champion Ady Barkan To 'Medicare For All' Hearing

Huff Post  

Ady Barkan will now testify at the upcoming "Medicare for All" hearing on Capitol Hill. Gabriel Olsen via Getty Images WASHINGTON ― A day after HuffPost reported on the controversy over the lack of pro-single-payer voices at the upcoming hearing on “Medicare for All,” the House Rules Committee announced Friday that a hero among single-payer advocates would now also testify: …

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It’s the for-profit health care industry telling us we can’t afford Medicare for All
5 years, 9 months ago

It’s the for-profit health care industry telling us we can’t afford Medicare for All

Salon  

The most important question about Medicare for All is a simple one: If other industrialized countries can afford to offer high-quality universal health care to their citizens, why can’t the United States? In a seminal paper published in 2003, Uwe Reinhardt and Gerard Anderson found “it’s the prices, stupid” that set the U.S. health care system apart. We have a …

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In Dems’ ‘Medicare for All’ battle cry, GOP sees ’20 weapon
5 years, 9 months ago

In Dems’ ‘Medicare for All’ battle cry, GOP sees ’20 weapon

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — “Medicare for All” has become catnip for Democratic presidential candidates and many lawmakers, yet Republicans prepping for next year’s congressional races are also flocking to it — for entirely different reasons. “We will deliver on our promise of passing legislation to lower the costs of health care,” said Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., who heads House Democrats’ campaign organization. …

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