Warren and Buttigieg Dodge Question of Raising Taxes to Pay for Medicare for All
Bernie Sanders says taxes will go up but premiums will be eliminated in Medicare for all. Warren and Buttigieg danced around it.

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.

Most Michigan voters reject eliminating private insurance in order to advance “Medicare for All,” according to a July survey conducted by the Glengariff Group Inc. released this week.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) refused to name a single thing he admires about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during an appearance on CNN Tuesday, prompting chuckles from CNN’s Poppy Harlow.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) dodged a question on her healthcare proposal during an AARP/Des Moines Register Presidential Forum last week, refusing to specify if her plan would kick millions of Americans off of their private insurance plans.

Joe Biden warned his fellow White House hopefuls that he would not refrain from punching back if criticized at the second Democrat presidential debate.

Former Vice President Joe Biden leads the field of 2020 Democrats in every early state, according to a series of new polls.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma said Monday that former Vice President Joe Biden’s public option plan serves as a “trojan horse” with single-payer health care “hiding inside.”

The ultra-left wing of the Democrat Party is gravitating toward Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as the top choices to win the Democrat nomination, a Democracy for America survey shows.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said on Sunday he “can’t promise” individuals will be allowed to keep their existing doctors if his new public option healthcare proposal is implemented.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that abolishing private health insurance is “a death knell for any Democratic candidate.” Brooks said, “I, of course, think Joe Biden’s policy is a better policy. And I just think, politically,
The feud between Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) over Medicare for All is escalating, with CNN claiming the former vice president has been caught making misleading statements about the universal healthcare proposal.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Thursday signaled to supporters during a town hall in Minnesota that she will continue to speak out against President Donald Trump after he challenged her and other freshman Congresswomen to leave the U.S.

Wednesday on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said in her health care plan “you can keep your doctor,” echoing former President Barack Obama’s broken promise on the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare. When

New York Magazine has attempted to decipher the various flip-flops by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on health care policy and concluded that they make “no sense.”

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Wednesday that former Vice President Joe Biden’s public option serves as nothing more than a scheme to enroll every American in a “government” healthcare plan.

Actress and leftist activist Susan Sarandon claimed Wednesday that Medicare for All will eliminate networks, premiums, and deductibles; however, she neglected to mention that Medicare for All will lead to worse care for patients, longer waiting lines, and much higher taxes for working Americans.

An ABC News report published Wednesday reveals that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign has received donations from “big pharma,” despite his campaign’s “No Health Insurance and Pharma Money Pledge.” His campaign, however, has promised to return the donations.

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Tuesday that the healthcare industry should have fixed surprise medical bills on their own. Braun said “nobody likes surprise medical bills.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden is being accused of parroting Republican talking points when it comes to Medicare for All by his fellow 2020 competitor, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT).

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) slammed former Vice President Joe Biden’s public option plan Tuesday as “preposterous” in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has flip-flopped again on the question of whether her health care proposal would allow for private health insurance, telling CNN on Tuesday evening that there would be “very little” of it under her plan.

Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged Americans who “like” their employer-based or private insurance plans could keep them under a sweeping healthcare reform proposal his campaign unveiled on Monday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden snubbed Medicare for All in favor of a government public health option, albeit with few details on how the program would work, when unveiling his campaign’s long-awaited healthcare proposal on Monday.

Presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) share many of the same ideological views, but they do not share the same base — a point of interest to onlookers of the Democrat primary.

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen warns his fellow Democrats to “stop embracing losing issues” like reparations and Medicare for All or else Trump will win.

Former Vice President Joe Biden expressed opposition to anyone of either party trying to “dismantle” Obamacare and said that doing so doesn’t make sense and would be “a sin.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) blames the planned closure of a Pennsylvania hospital on a U.S. health care system that puts profits before people.

The U.S. needs to embrace the radical, far-left agenda touted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) said in response to the hesitancy Joe Biden (D) expressed during a CNN interview aired Friday.

Conservatives on and off of Capitol Hill continue to clash over how to address surprise medical bills, a prominent issue in healthcare reform.

“We’re not in the hospital business. We’re in the border security business at the border,” Trump said. “And all of a sudden, we’re forced to be in the hospital business.”

Issues and Insights Editorial Board compares and contrasts two “Bernies” in public life: Bernie Marcus, founder of Home Depot, and Bernie Sanders, presidential candidate and passionate Socialist Democrat.
