Senator Bernie Sanders introduce new Single-Payer Health Care bill

[panamaican]

I still need to see numbers on this. The government involvement argument died decades ago, so lets focus on the fiscal side.

 

[My Spot]

What about Kamala the Ugandan Giant?

 

[P4p Islam]

Kamala Harris to co-sponsor Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care bill
By Eric Bradner, CNN | Wed August 30, 2017

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Sen. Kamala Harris is the first Democrat to announce she'll co-sponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care bill when it's introduced in September.

The California freshman -- seen as a rising star in the party and a 2020 presidential prospect -- revealed her plans to back Sanders' legislation at a town hall Wednesday night in Oakland.

"Here, I'll break some news: I intend to co-sponsor the Medicare-for-all bill, because it's just the right thing to do," Harris said. She announced her support for Sanders' single-payer plan at the end of her town hall and joked that "somebody should tell my staff."

Her co-sponsorship is another sign that the Democratic Party is increasingly embracing a shift away from the private health insurance market and toward a government-run program. The issue is poised to become a major litmus test for its presidential candidates in 2020.

It comes just 20 months after the party's last standard-bearer in a presidential election, Hillary Clinton, called Sanders' single-payer proposal "a theoretical debate about some better idea that will never, ever come to pass."

"This is about understanding, again, that health care should be a right, not a privilege. And it's also about being smart," Harris said. "It is so much better that people have meaningful access to affordable health care at every stage of life, from birth on. Because the alternative is that we as taxpayers otherwise are paying huge amounts of money for them to get their health care in an emergency room. So it's not only about what is morally and ethically right, it also makes sense from a fiscal standpoint, or if you want to talk about it as a return on investment for taxpayers."

The early endorsement from Harris could clear the way for more Democrats to co-sponsor the bill. Already this summer, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand have announced their support for single-payerhealth insurance.

Sanders tweeted his thanks to Harris on Wednesday night. "Let's make health care a right, not a privilege," he wrote.

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Some of Sanders' most vocal supporters, who had questioned Harris' progressive bona fides, expressed cautious optimism about Harris' position.

"Like it or not, single payer has become the litmus test in order to run for office. I expect a a lot or senators to agree. But count on Bernie 100% to actually follow through," said RoseAnn DeMoro, the executive director of National Nurses United, the first major union to back Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign.

But DeMoro added she wants to hear single-payer supporters aggressively argue for the end of private insurance, too. "I want to hear an actual articulation of the principles of single payer from these candidates, including that the insurance industry has no role. Bernie says that. Will they?" she said.

Winnie Wong, the co-founder of People for Bernie, said Harris is "meeting her constituents where they are. I see this as a pragmatic political decision." She added that it could revitalize a state-level debate in California about moving to a single-payer program.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/30/politics/kamala-harris-bernie-sanders-single-payer-medicare/index.html

#BernieBless

 

[Arkain2K]

I still need to see numbers on this. The government involvement argument died decades ago, so lets focus on the fiscal side.

Let's hope the latest proposal will have more substances in the whitepapers than just empty slogans like the first two botched attempts in Maryland and California.

 

[hillelslovak87]

Hey Buddy,

His question was about health insurance, and that had nothing to do with my statement.

My statement is a fact! How about show me someone in the U.S. that wanted health care and was denied care? It's against the law to turn someone away.

So, since people cant be turned away from emergency rooms, everyone has adequate healthcare? I have heard so many Republican lawmakers talk about how illegals stress our system by not having health insurance, and going to the ER. So, now you're arguing that is a good thing for everyone?

 

[Arkain2K]

 

[Arkain2K]

 

[ultramanhyata]

I went to elementary school with her and like what she has done in office so far.

Did you hit it?

 

[ultramanhyata]

This is one of those "ponies" Shillary's new book claims the Sanders campaign was falsely promising voters.

Good timing, you soulless hag.

 

[Scheme]

Good for her. Healthcare should be a right. Nobody should go broke because they are sick or have had an injury.

Big difference between healthcare and health insurance.

A car crash is much different than a lifelong smoker getting lung cancer. Why should I have to pay for a smoker to get cancer treatment when they brought it on themselves? Or why should I pay for the hospital bills of an obese person has a heart attack? Or a herione addict having medical complications? Or a guy doing parkour in his free time and fucking up his leg on a landing. Why take responsibility away from people?

 

[zebby23]

Big difference between healthcare and health insurance.

A car crash is much different than a lifelong smoker getting lung cancer. Why should I have to pay for a smoker to get cancer treatment when they brought it on themselves? Or why should I pay for the hospital bills of an obese person has a heart attack?

You realize that you do anyway right? That's how health insurance works. The healthy subsidize the sick

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

You realize that you do anyway right? That's how health insurance works. The healthy subsidize the sick

None of these morans do.

"ZOMG I dont want to pay for someone else's healthcare!!!!!!11111eleven"

Meanwhile under their private plan, theyre paying for someone elses healthcare when theyre not sick....

 

[Quipling]

This is one of those "ponies" Shillary's new book claims the Sanders campaign was falsely promising voters.

Good timing, you soulless hag.

Sig bet you this "pony" doesn't make it into law.

 

[zebby23]

None of these morans do.

"ZOMG I dont want to pay for someone else's healthcare!!!!!!11111eleven"

Meanwhile under their private plan, theyre paying for someone elses healthcare when theyre not sick....

They don't mind paying for someone else's health care as long as they don't have to admit they are doing it. Also notice how he didn't respond to my post. The silence is deafening

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

This should be on the democrat platform at all times. This is what the country wants.

 

[Rematch]

This is one of those "ponies" Shillary's new book claims the Sanders campaign was falsely promising voters.

Good timing, you soulless hag.

And the rift continues.

 

[unimackpass]

Fun fact, she got her start in politics by fucking an old man so she'd get a cushy job where she didn't do shit and got paid 100k.


But, I'm sure she cares about tax paying Americans.

Picks?

 

[ultramanhyata]

Sig bet you this "pony" doesn't make it into law.

Neither did the two versions of Trumpcare. But only an idiot would therefore call either one of those health care proposals a "pony".

Honor points for the attempt at white-knighting for Despicable Hillary, though.

 

[Gutter Chris]

My statement is a fact! How about show me someone in the U.S. that wanted health care and was denied care? It's against the law to turn someone away.

and it costs a fortune and is retarded to do things that way. We all as tax payers foot that bill plus our own healthcare costs and its just too much

A national system from everything I have seen will work and they cost less. Why is this such a hated idea considering you already know you are paying out the nose for losers with no healthcare in your taxes ?

We dont have to turn into soviet russia or change our country much at all so lets do without the communism and socialism references as it ads nothing to the debate and makes you sound foolish

 

[Gutter Chris]

Kalama Harris is the top pick for Dems if Hillary doesn't run again, she's black and a woman...that's all the left needs, they can play the sexist card AND the racist card at the same time

hillary isnt running again dude. Stop acting like thats even something to consider