Sanders immediately challenged Harris’ description of her plan as proper Medicare for All.
“I like Kamala. She’s a friend of mine, but her plan is not Medicare for All,” Sanders told CNN ahead of the debates. “What Medicare for All understands is that health care is a human right and the function of a sane health care system is not to make sure that insurance companies and drug companies make tens of billions of dollars in profit.”
A senior policy adviser to Sanders called Harris’ rejiggered plan “bad policy” and “bad politics,” warning it “vastly expands the ability for private insurance corporations to profit from over-billing and denying care to vulnerable patients who need it the most.”
And from the same link, I’m going to agree with the Trump campaign on this one:
“Kamala Harris’ spokespeople are once again alleging she has flip flopped on her positions – this time saying she no longer supports socialist Medicare for All,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday, calling on Harris “to explain why she is running from every liberal policy she has ever supported.”
Yeah. I’m gonna vote for her, but no part of me thinks I’m going to see police reform, m4a, etc from her, and it makes me sad because these are long cycles, and I have to imagine I’ll be near dead of old age before we’ve got much chance of the kind of change I feel like we had the chance for coming out of 2020. She portrayed herself as a lot more progressive in 2020, and plenty of people called her on it then when considered against the backdrop of her pre-Senatorial record.
If congress managed to get their shit together, I still don’t think that they could possibly do it without the support of the President before it gets to her desk. If she doesn’t want it, there is zero percent chance it ever gets there. (IMO)
a lot can change in 4 years. did anybody really see democrats running for labor issues before biden took office? they’re campaigning at union events. that was unthinkable just a couple of cycles ago.
universal healthcare is insanely popular. they could get there. remember that picking a president is also about picking who you want to fight against. it’s certainly more likely for Harris to listen to public opinion than it is for The Blob.
It doesn’t matter what she has done or said since. That was her loudest moment on the issue before this campaign and it’s what most Americans remember. Undoing that statement is basically impossible. Especially for anybody who is already skeptical of her.
But Harris opposes Medicare For All.
Unfortunately this is a false accusation.
if we don’t give harris a blue congress, absolutely nothing will get done for at least two years.
and, next-to-nothing will get done without 60+ in the senate, which i don’t think could even happen til mid-terms.
big enough majorities in congress to get the good stuff through is 4-6 years out. once the republicants are out, they cannot be let back in.
if m4a did happen to land on a president harris’ desk for a signature, i have zero doubts about her signing it.
I can’t decide between honestly pointing out Harris and Walz’ flaws, and ignoring them during discourse so as to increase her chance of victory.
Do the latter, and after the election do the former.
Why do you think that?
From the second link:
And from the same link, I’m going to agree with the Trump campaign on this one:
Yeah. I’m gonna vote for her, but no part of me thinks I’m going to see police reform, m4a, etc from her, and it makes me sad because these are long cycles, and I have to imagine I’ll be near dead of old age before we’ve got much chance of the kind of change I feel like we had the chance for coming out of 2020. She portrayed herself as a lot more progressive in 2020, and plenty of people called her on it then when considered against the backdrop of her pre-Senatorial record.
if congress managed to get their shit together and pass historic legislation establishing m4a, no way would harris veto it. not a fucking chance.
If congress managed to get their shit together, I still don’t think that they could possibly do it without the support of the President before it gets to her desk. If she doesn’t want it, there is zero percent chance it ever gets there. (IMO)
She raised her hand in favor in the 2020 primary, she’ll never be able to undo that
She’s since capitulated to the health insurance leech industry, though:
a lot can change in 4 years. did anybody really see democrats running for labor issues before biden took office? they’re campaigning at union events. that was unthinkable just a couple of cycles ago.
universal healthcare is insanely popular. they could get there. remember that picking a president is also about picking who you want to fight against. it’s certainly more likely for Harris to listen to public opinion than it is for The Blob.
It doesn’t matter what she has done or said since. That was her loudest moment on the issue before this campaign and it’s what most Americans remember. Undoing that statement is basically impossible. Especially for anybody who is already skeptical of her.
Of course she can. Politicians change their minds all the time.
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I believe it was an interview on Kimmel that I just watched where she indicated she absolutely is for Medicare For All, not opposed.
Edit: well, I cannot for the life of me find this interview.