Democratic Party Presidential Candidates for 2020

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Biden is the Dem candidate with the biggest lead over Trump in the polls, but all the top tier names beat him as well: Sanders, Warren, Harris, Buttigieg and Cory Booker. Warren and Buttigieg continue to climb up in the polls, so they haven't hit their ceiling yet. It's going to be an interesting primary race.

Also remember Biden has been pretty quiet until lately. People have been using an Obama-era proxy for him until now but rarely does the real thing live up to expectations.
 

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My guess is that her plan isn't medicare for all but something similar to the medicare x (but knowing her, more fleshed out) that some others have been endorsing. Personally, I think that the electorate will more easily embrace something like that where they can keep their current insurance if they want
This is how they get you to think you don't really want M4A. Or we'll work on it in the future. Maybe next time.

You're going to maybe next time millions of Americans into their early, bankrupt graves.

There is no other plan on the table. None. "Health insurance every American can afford" is not a plan, it is a dodge. If you want M4A you have to fight for it, because the insurance lobby is certainly fighting. And you have to do that now, because as someone has pointed out, the one candidate with any chance whatsoever of bringing you M4A isn't getting any younger.

All the civilized nations have some version of socialized health care. It's not like we're breaking some new, risky ground.

My guess is that her plan isn't medicare for all
You don't have to guess what Sanders wants, because he's been fighting for the same damned things for decades.

they can keep their current insurance if they want
We don't need health insurance. We need health care. Universal, free at the point of service health care means you can see any doctor you want, and it will cost you no more than if you didn't get sick, and you'll still have that if you find yourself unemployed, or just want to change jobs. That is better than health insurance. Don't let republicans, corporate democrats and the insurance lobby convince you you will lose your health care. You will lose your health insurance, and that is a good thing. Good riddance.
 

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70% of Americans support Medicare For All, so when someone as intelligent as Elizabeth Warren can't seem to find what she believes about the situation, it tells you everything you need to know about her. She's telling you that your life and health really doesn't take priority over your ability to produce cash for the people who really matter... it's a head-scratcher for her. Am I going to actually have a litmus test for someone I give Medical Power Of Attorney to? You're damn right I am. Get her out of my emergency room and she can take most of her fellow Democratic candidates with her.
 
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So here's another perspective on Warren's stance on healthcare. Minus the drama-queen disparagements.

“We need #MedicareForAll – and until we get it, there's no reason private insurers can't provide coverage that lives up to the high standards of our public health care programs,” Warren tweeted in announcing the bill.

Democratic Sens. Sanders, Kamala Harris (CA), Maggie Hassan (NH), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) and Tammy Baldwin (WI) are co-sponsoring the Warren bill, which means it has “total buy-in from the senators most likely to run on the more liberal side of the Democratic Party in the 2020 presidential nomination contest,” Bloomberg’s Jonathan Bernstein notes.
Elizabeth Warren Has New Plan to Improve Health Care – and It Isn’t Medicare for All
 

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Without m4a, she joins the "hold my nose" club for me, personally.

Given current trends we'll reach a point where the republicans will become fringe like the Klan, the Democrats will become the new right wing party, and we'll have a viable left-wing party.

That day cannot possibly come soon enough.
 

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Will the The Consumer Health Insurance Protection Act be as effective as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ?

Perhaps it's the only reasonable and logical solution. It's certainly not like the hair-on -fire fairy dust failed health care solutions of of the rest of the industrialized world with lower costs and better outcomes. There must be a sensible plan where we can pay a third party for our cake and eat it too with access permission provided by the third party to the second party, after copays and deductibles, that is regulated by an oversight committee that may or may not be subject to influence by the third party.

Health Care and trauma is certainly not something that should be approached without carefully weighing options on how economics will be impacted. Can our insurance companies live with the losses of keeping us alive? Can we provided them with proper financial rehabilitation to restore their dignity? We have to remember that once they're gone, they are gone forever. Do we really want to be the kind of society that simply lets insurance companies die because we selfishly put our own lives and well-being ahead of their needs? Warren has a plan to improve things, and an ounce of improvement is worth a pound of solution.
 

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If this Warren plan doesn't bring deductibles down to a level that can be afforded, it's still locking people out of health care. Just 250 a month for medications is way too much for people on low wages. They need that money for food and shelter.
Exactly. Preserving high deductible plans by increasing subsidies is a fail.
 

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If this Warren plan doesn't bring deductibles down to a level that can be afforded, it's still locking people out of health care.
:qft: That was my first thought as well. It's non-sense and a total capitulation.

Embracing Capitalism, when it's Capitalism that's the root of the problem...is less than helpful, to put it tactfully.
 

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