Health care explained: Medicare for All vs public option vs the ACA

July 31, 2019 News

Health care has emerged as a key fault line for Democrats. All of them want to make changes, but their plans vary widely -- from building on the Affordable Care Act to completely overhauling our nation's health insurance system.
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Democratic debates: Sanders and Warren clash with moderates over healthcare – live

July 30, 2019July 31, 2019 Democrats, News, US news, US politics

Sanders tells John Delaney ‘you’re wrong’ about Medicare for all while Warren describes a man with ALS struggling to pay his medical bills
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Jake Tapper has so far been vigilant about keeping candidates to the time limits that CNN is trying to enforce.
That technique may help each candidate receive a more proportionate time of camera attention, but it has also made for a choppy debate with candidates repeatedly...

John Delaney: If we run on Medicare for All, we will lose 2020

July 30, 2019 News

Watch Stephanie Ruhle speak with 2020 contender John Delaney about his strategy for the debate stage tonight and to get his take on President Trump’s latest racist attacks.
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Bernie Sanders has an Elizabeth Warren problem at tonight’s debate

July 30, 2019 Democrats, News, politics, United States

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The slick, underhanded way Republicans plan to keep Michigan gerrymandered

July 30, 2019 News, politics

The state of Michigan does not hold free and fair legislative elections. In 2018, Democratic state house and senate candidates received tens of thousands more votes than their Republican counterparts. Yet Republicans have solid majorities in both houses.

Meanwhile, the state’s congressional districts are so aggressively gerrymandered that, in 2012, when President Obama won the state by over nine points, Republicans still captured nine of Michigan’s 14 U.S. House seats.

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Support for Medicare for All dips: poll

July 30, 2019 News

A new poll finds that public support for "Medicare for All," a policy championed by several 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, has dipped in recent months.The ...

The Health 202: Is there a middle road on Medicare-for-all? Kamala Harris thinks so.

July 30, 2019 News

Some Republicans say her version is actually palatable.

The US is on the verge of a devastating, but avoidable doctor shortage

July 30, 2019 doctors, medicine, News

In 1997, President Bill Clinton was coming off a convincing reelection effort and presiding over a booming economy. Tax revenues were surging, and the federal budget deficit was falling. During the preceding two years, the annual deficit had s...

Support for Medicare for All dips, most people like their employer plans

July 30, 2019 News

Americans are eager to hear the Democratic presidential contenders talk about health care at his week's debates on CNN, but they are more mixed in their support for the candidates' proposals.

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Bernie Sanders vs. Kamala Harris on taxes for Medicare-for-all

July 30, 2019 News

Presidential candidate Harris has distanced herself from some of Sanders’s Medicare-for-all plan, saying she objects to what she calls a “middle-class tax hike” embedded in it. But her 2020 rival, Sanders, insists that the middle class will save money on his proposal.