Senator Elizabeth Warren announced on Thursday she's co-sponsoring Senator Bernie Sanders's "Medicare for All" bill, which is set to be introduced next week in the Senate.
In a statement, Warren said, "There is something fundamentally wrong when one of the richest and most powerful countries on the planet can’t make sure that a person can afford to see a doctor when they’re sick. This isn’t any way to live."
"I believe it’s time to take a step back and ask: what is the best way to deliver high quality, low cost health care to all Americans? Everything should be on the table – and that’s why I’m co-sponsoring Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill that will be introduced later this month," the senator added.
In her statement, Warren applauded the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and former President Barack Obama's efforts on health care, signifying a desire to build off of his accomplishments.
"We owe a huge debt to President Obama. Because of the Affordable Care Act, health care coverage is better – more people can get the treatment they need and families are less vulnerable to the financial fallout from a serious illness or accident," Warren said. "But there’s so much more we could do right now to bring down the costs of quality health care for every American."
I am gratified to see Warren giving President Obama the props he deserves for getting the Affordable Care Act passed. There are those who are not quite as gracious.
Earlier rising Democratic star Kamala Harris also voiced her support for this bill so it appears that it is likely to become an official plank of the Democratic party.
And that is a good thing.
I told my friend just the other day that I think the Democrats need one unifying policy to rally behind, and I think this could be it.
I also want to give Bernie Sanders credit for pushing this idea and bringing people on to support it. I am so over Sanders at this point I had to check twice to remember how to spell his name, but this is a positive step forward, and he deserves to be recognized for that.
Hopefully this will inspire other Democrats to sign on and together we can get this thing done.
Thank you for this post Gryph. It's time for Democrats to unite around single payer. You're over Bernie and I'm over Hillary so let's drop the score-settling from the last election and get moving to give Americans what they want and deserve from us.
ReplyDeleteYes, this *should* be it.
ReplyDeleteBut the Democratic Party has already chosen "anti-trust." What? you ask. Exactly.
Healthcare. Income Equality. Climate Change. Immigration reform. Geez. Pick something people understand. Pick ANYTHING but anti-trust.
As California goes, so goes the nation. We can only hope.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-house-midterms-2018-california_us_59b01baee4b0354e440e93b9?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
"A California group that aims to help Democrats win back the House in 2018 got a big boost on Thursday, adding a veteran progressive congressman to its efforts to flip seven vulnerable Republican-held congressional districts."
"Launched in June, Red to Blue California PAC supports Democratic candidates challenging GOP incumbents in seven congressional districts that voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election.
The group believes it can play a crucial role in helping Democrats nationwide to retain control of the House, arguing that the path “runs through ‘red’ California.”"
I really want to see that corrupt weasel Issa out of power.
DeleteWe got *really* close last election. He's up again in 2018 and there and Democrats have already announced plans to take him on. I think they might succeed this time. Issa did not comport himself well over Obamacare. He has a choice to side with his constituents or with Trump. If he chooses Trump, he's out. California Republicans are not the same as those in the Republican party. They may be fiscally conservative but they are socially liberal.
DeleteDemocrats got really close last time, this time they are determined to take him out.
Bernie, the convenient Democrat? That Bernie? Fuck him.
ReplyDeleteWhat about single payer? Fuck that too? Grow up and start working to help people that need help so we can beat Republicans. Or just stick to attacking Bernie. Your choice.
DeleteGood to see Hillary still out there working for the regular people...
ReplyDelete"At about $90 and up, Hillary Clinton book tour tickets double what was originally advertised"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-clinton-tickets-0908-chicago-inc-20170906-story.html
(vip tickets 2k+ lol)
Hillary is a private citizen; she has no obligation to work for the regular people at this point.
DeleteSo take your criticism elsewhere.
Good for Hillary. She deserves every penny after what low IQ ignoramuses like you have tried to insinuate.
DeleteNot sure who would care enough to listen to her at this point, but "you go girl". Just like Obama, he's a private citizen now as well and both should take their well-deserved retirements from public service and just chill.
DeleteAre you kidding me? Hillary was the nominee of the Democratic Party. Of course she.has an obligation to the "regular people" - whoever you think they are. People in Texas are homeless and Florida will be devastated next week and our nominee will be fleecing people and whining about how mean all those men were to her. How noble. How constructive. How compassionate. What a loser.
DeleteI wish tiny 'Belmonted, Butt Padded, and Spiked Heeled' Sarah would pop her head up more. She can be a very entertaining nincompoop. I especially like it when she wears the 'Braying Ass' face. It's a LOL moment every time. She has absolutely no idea she is so dumb. If she wasn't hateful and vicious I would cut her some slack.
Delete'V'errit'>(Clinton herself endorsed the site in a tweet last weekend—Daou says he doesn't know who showed it to her.)"
Delete", every research tool we could to count every single day that there was negative coverage of the emails. It was 600 consecutive days. The most we could find for Trump was 20 or 30 consecutive days around the bus tape. You cannot tell me that 600 days of consecutive coverage hammering her equates to Trump having bad stories. Well, Trump had bad stories because he did bad things. The same with Bernie Sanders! A lot of Bernie supporters say he didn't get fair coverage, but you go back to the Harvard study of the primaries, he got by far the most favorable coverage."
"This is not about relitigating, this is about understanding what happened and rejecting the false narratives."
"the minute those guys decided "you know what, we're going to rip Hillary Clinton's character apart"... A little known fact is that Bernie himself, according to the New York Times, sat with his advisers and said, "I don't want to go after her Wall Street speeches because that's a character attack and she has a right to make a living." In 2015 he said that. By 2016 it was nothing but Wall Street speeches. That's hypocrisy but nobody calls him out on it."
"Part of the idea of the Verrits, of the cards—and this was really Leela's idea—was to just give Democrats talking points, and factual ones, really triple-checked ones, to go out and argue with Republicans. All the attacks on Verrit seem to be coming from the left, which is truly unfortunate. Breitbart and the Daily Caller did pieces about it, but they're writing about the left coming after it. Yes, they're spreading my brand and everything, which is helpful to us, because it builds our capacity to attract more of our audience,"we're fighting the good fight for the right cause."
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/09/07/an_interview_with_peter_daou_verrit_founder_and_hillary_superfan.html
9:23... understanding what happened.... according to "peter_daou_verrit_founder_and_hillary_superfan"
DeleteHillary Superfan!
and endorsed by the Hill herself!
lolololololololololololol!!!!!!!!!!!
OT I wish Bannon would not be given time on cable news or any news. He no longer works at the White House. What he said about the Catholic Church today was offensive in many ways.
ReplyDeleteThe catholic church is so offensive in so many ways I doubt Bannon could do it any more injustice than it's done itself.
DeleteMedicare for all, but, but, but the republicans want to do away with Medicare, so what will happen if we all have it :)
ReplyDeleteWarren could've run against Hillary and won the Dem nod but she had to pretend she "wasn't interested" because the powers that be said it was "Hillary's turn".
ReplyDeleteShe still wouldn't have won the Electoral College, but at least she would have offered a new generation some hope and change instead of "next in line".
So how'd that work out for everyone ;-)
She clearly did not want to run. Not everyone in politics wants to run for President. Shut up and let the adults talk.
DeleteThat whole "Hillary's turn" bullshit trope is really lame. Give it up.
Deletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/watch-bernie-sanders-struggles-to-come-up-with-something-nice-to-say-about-donald-trump/
Delete"While many would like to see Clinton disappear, Sanders hoped former rival would join him in the crusade for progressive policies like Medicare for all and the fight to raise the minimum wage."
On dRumpf>"Sanders struggled for nearly two minutes. The pause was so long that Colbert warned the CBS affiliates the interview might “go long.”
As Bernie Sanders worked to finalize his Medicare-for-All Act of 2017, corporate lobbyists representing the traditional opponents of single-payer health care — including the nation’s major private insurers and drug companies — poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into Senate Democrats’ fundraising accounts. Now, many of those lawmakers have refused to sign on to the Medicare bill.
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