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A majority of likely Iowa Democrat caucus voters prefer a public option, compared to only one-fifth of Democrats who prefer Medicare for All, according to a poll released this week.

A study released Wednesday found that a government health insurance option, a proposal backed by former Vice President Joe Biden, could close as many as 55 percent of rural hospitals.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) beats out former Vice President Joe Biden on health care, which serves as a symbolic contrast over the Democrats’ ideological split over Medicare for All or improving Obamacare through a public option, according to a poll released Tuesday.

The Donald Trump administration continues to mull whether to roll out its long-awaited Republican healthcare plan as an alternative to the Democrats’ Medicare for All and public option proposals.

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes in The Hill that this week’s Democrat presidential debates highlighted the internal party civil war between the moderate wing and the socialists.

A Better Future Michigan ad highlighted how Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) backed Medicare for All, which will eliminate all Michiganders and Americans’ health insurance. 

During a Thursday interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) discussed his Medicare for All plan. Sanders lamented to host Joe Scarborough that the United States is the “only major country on Earth” to not

Sen. Kamala Harris said “babies will be born” into her health plan, but her plan also offers all abortions at the expense of taxpayers.

Former Vice President Joe Biden struggled to articulate his plans on health care and was cut off repeatedly on Wednesday during the second night of the Democrat debates on CNN.

Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D-CA) campaign responded to the remark Joe Biden (D) uttered to Harris during their pre-debate handshake with a single word: “Kid?”

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) falsely claimed to have a clear healthcare plan that includes both a public option and a private insurance market at the second Democrat presidential debate on Wednesday.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) called out Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) over her healthcare plan, implying that she was not being honest and warning that it could make it more difficult for Democrats to defeat President Trump. 

DETROIT, Michigan — Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) scolded fellow Democratic presidential candidates and the CNN moderators at the second Democrat debate on Wednesday evening, telling them: “The person who is enjoying this debate most right now is Donald Trump.”

Democrats’ “Medicare for All” proposals would destroy Medicare, “breaking the bargain with senior citizens,” warned Michael Walsh.

The Vox website named candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren and the Republican Party as winners of the Democrat debate and CNN and Beto as losers.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews grilled Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) following Tuesday night’s debate, aggressively confronting her for refusing to say if Medicare for All will result in higher taxes for middle-class Americans.

Tuesday night’s debate mirrored the ongoing battle between moderates and the ultra-left within the Democrat Party, but a new progressive tactic made an appearance during the anticipated event: Accuse moderate opponents of using “Republican talking points.”

Presidential hopeful John Delaney (D) addressed Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) attacks during a Wednesday morning appearance on Fox & Friends, calling her rebuke “lazy” and “dishonest” and suggesting her extreme views will “turn off the independent voters and get the president reelected.”

During an interview on CNN after Tuesday’s CNN Democratic debate, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) responded to CNN host Anderson Cooper’s question on what she would say to people who like their private health insurance by saying,

“We’ve got to summon the courage to walk away from the past and do something different,” Buttigieg said during his opening statement. “This is our shot.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) lashed out at moderate Democrats on Tuesday during the second presidential debate, saying he was “tired” of his those “afraid of big ideas.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) slammed John Delaney (D) for questioning her far-left ideas, asking why he would go through “all the trouble of running for President of the United States just to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) said during the second Democrat presidential debate on Tuesday that he would support giving healthcare to illegal immigrants.

Some experts say free health care would bring more illegal aliens; Obama’s homeland security secretary predicted decriminalization would also.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) scolded the Democrat audience at CNN’s Tuesday night debate for chuckling after she tried to go back to a prepared talking point during an exchange on Medicare for All, looking at them directly and stating, “This isn’t funny!”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) defended Medicare for All from criticism at the second Democrat presidential debate on Tuesday, saying that United States should emulate Canada on universal healthcare. 

Bernie Sanders says taxes will go up but premiums will be eliminated in Medicare for all. Warren and Buttigieg danced around it.

DETROIT, Michigan — Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) were set up as the antagonists for the first night of the second Democratic debate. But they tag-teamed on the first question to pound former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD), who tried to defend the role of private health insurance.

DETROIT, Michigan — The second Democratic debate has already produced one breakthrough candidate: Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who is appearing onstage for the first time Tuesday evening as one of the twenty competitors over two nights.

A Change Research National poll released Tuesday shows Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) overtaking frontrunner Joe Biden (D) nationally, hours before the second debate kicks off.

American approval of a public option implodes if it leads to more government in health care, according to a poll released Tuesday.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) flip-flopped on another issue on Monday, saying that she was not in favor of decriminalizing illegal border crossing — then saying that she was.

Former vice president Joe Biden and the campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) both attacked Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) for flip-flopping on her support for Sanders’s “Medicare for All” proposal, which she co-sponsored.

Democrat frontrunners Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) will appear on the same debate stage Tuesday night, but Democrats are not sure if viewers should expect fireworks between the two.  

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) released a new version of “Medicare for All” that will shift every American to a public or private version of Medicare.

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders said his ideas are not radical and are practiced all over the world, citing extended maternity leave in Norway, free college in Germany, and free health care in Canada.