Popular progressive Democrat candidates including Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were undeterred in pushing their “medicare for all” plans that would eliminate private insurance.
During her post-date analysis RNC Chairwoman made it clear she perceived the debate as the left’s unveiling of a “total socialist plan” which included both free healthcare for illegals and decriminalizing illegal crossings.
Per USAToday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., called out CNN debate moderator Jake Tapper for using what he called a “Republican talking point” during Tuesday night’s Democratic Presidential debate.
One of the early questions in the debate centered around the oft-debated “Medicare for all” position and whether the middle class should pay more in taxes in order to support “Medicare for all.”
“People talk about having insurance,” Sanders said. “There are millions of people who have insurance. They can’t and when they come out of the hospital, they go bankrupt. What I am talking about and others up here are talking about is no deductibles and no copayments.
“And Jake, your question is a Republican talking point.”
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Democrats onstage at Tuesday’s presidential debate in Detroit were dishonest about whether their health care proposals would raise taxes on the working class, according to Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
Union workers in Michigan, the nation’s automotive capital, would not want to subscribe to such plans, McDaniel claimed Tuesday on “Fox News @ Night.”
“What you did see from the Democrats tonight was a total socialist plan — a takeover of all of our health care with this proposal for Medicare-for-All,” she said. “They didn’t know how to pay for it. They were dishonest about the fact it would raise taxes on every single American.”
McDaniel, 46 — a Michigan native who is a granddaughter of former Michigan Gov. George Romney and niece of Detroit-born U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah — also said Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., essentially promised they would put an end to private insurance.
“I don’t think that’s something that people in Michigan would like,” she said.
“I think a lot of union workers would say, ‘Hey, you’re going to take away my plan that I negotiated? You’re going to take me off my plan where I can choose my doctor and what’s best for me and my family? I don’t think that’s going to fly.”
During the debate, Sanders turned up the heat as he vehemently defended his plan for reforming health care amid attacks from several of his fellow contenders.
He was responding to Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, who told Sanders he didn’t “know” that “Medicare-for-all” would provide certain benefits.
“I wrote the damn bill!” Sanders exclaimed in response.
His comments came during a long, contentious exchange in which candidates clashed over competing visions for health care. Sanders has championed the Medicare-for-all program with his own bill in the Senate and, along with Warren is perhaps its most vociferous proponent in the Democratic field.
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Former President Obama aide David Axelrod Tuesday warned that many of the proposals endorsed by Democratic presidential candidates disregard many polls that show these positions unpopular.
He noted that polls show large numbers of Americans oppose Medicare-for-all, decriminalizing illegal border crossings and giving free healthcare to illegal immigrants.
“It does seem if you’re running for president that you ought to take into consideration what the country wants,” Axelrod said during CNN’s post-debate analysis.
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