Warren says Democrats should campaign on Single-Payer healthcare.
Elizabeth Warren has been on a campaign footing to push back against Republican efforts to bestow enormous tax breaks on millionaires and billionaires by decimating health-care coverage for ordinary Americans.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is traveling to Trump-friendly areas of her state hoping to connect with his backers and provide a road map for her party to win back working-class voters. […]
Democrats, she said, would do better if they campaigned on that progressive platform rather than blurring the lines between themselves and Republicans. — WSJ
Warren highlighted the lengths to which President Obama and Democrats had gone in 2009-2010 to garner Republican support for the PPACA.
“President Obama tried to move us forward with health-care coverage by using a conservative model that came from one of the conservative think tanks that had been advanced by a Republican governor in Massachusetts,” Warren told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
“Now it’s time for the next step. And the next step is single payer,” she added. […]
“The progressive agenda is America’s agenda,” Warren said. “It’s not like we’re trying to sell stuff that people don’t want. … It’s not that at all. It’s that we haven’t gotten up there and been as clear about our values as we should be, or as clear and concrete about how we’re going to get there.” — The Hill
John Conyers Jr.’s Medicare for All bill in the House now has 113 co-sponsors, that is almost 60% of the Democratic caucus.
Meanwhile, in California, Assembly Speaker Rendon made a decision to shelve a single-payer bill that had passed the California Senate.
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon’s abrupt decision Friday to sideline a bill that would have established single-payer healthcare in California roused a swift and fiery backlash from the measure’s supporters, who accused the Democrat from Paramount of unilaterally blunting the effort for sweeping overhaul of the state’s healthcare system. […]
But even as the bill advanced through the state Senate, it was apparent that it would have to overcome several obstacles to succeed. Legislators, who voted this year to raise taxes on gasoline, were wary of backing additional taxes. The proposal hinged on approval by voters and the federal government. […]
The bill’s progress alarmed some interest groups that saw crucial questions go unanswered. Laphonza Butler, president of the statewide council of the Service Employees International Union, said her union was eager to discuss the single-payer proposal but worried that specifics about implementation, namely how it would be integrated with care programs offered by county governments, were going unaddressed. — LA Times
David Sirota writes in the IB Times that Governor Jerry Brown, who has previously supported single-payer, did not support the bill. Sirota also outlined millions of dollars in donations to the CA Democratic party and assembly members from groups opposed to the single-payer bill.
Meanwhile, NY’s single-payer bill has passed the assembly but is being held up in the Senate by the Republican speaker (who holds the position with the support of the IDC). The bill is supported by all Democratic senators, except for Simcha Felder. The Campaign for NY Health has been organizing constituent calls to support the bill.
Thank God. As long as she does more than campaign on it. And not shove it under the bus as soon as she’s elected.
I think Warren’s on board, and I hope other Ds join her as well. Bernie has definitely moved the needle on this one.
It seems so. I recall last week, watching the Sanders/Warren Q&A on healthcare, that it sounded like something they were going to take on the road.
An article from a few weeks ago–but relevant. As usual in U.S. politics, it’s down to whether the Senators and Representatives will listen to the popular good ideas or the $$$ provided by those opposed to those ideas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/democrats-universal-health-care-single-payer-party.html
Single Payer?! So just how are those poor, poor insurance executives going to get by without their multimillion dollar salaries?
I’m still very wary of Warren. I’m wary of any Repuke, ex- as well as current. Rec’d, subir. 🙂
I’m not going to judge anyone’s journey on politics. When I was young, I described myself as a libertarian. Given the right audience, I still will, but want it understood in way Chomsky uses the term.
I myself have always been a tree-hugging, bleeding heart liberal but I have grown and changed enough in other ways over my 49 years on this planet to know that you can’t hold 50 year-olds to beliefs they had at 20. They are two different animals.
As usual, it’s not what they say, but what they do that matters.
This is a positive development!
One could consider this an understatement. LOL
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Bernie warns about being overconfident after the temporary setback.
Yeah, they are clearly going to come back from the recess and try something. They have $200 Bn to play with since their cuts are even more invasive than they themselves expected. So they can dole out $20 Bn a head to keep 10 votes.
Throwing this in just for context.