'The Difference Is Thousands of Lives':

[Uncle Joe]

Sanders Releases Chart Contrasting Biden's Incremental Healthcare Plan With Medicare for All

As Joe Biden continued his misleading attacks on single-payer during an AARP forum in Iowa on Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign circulated a chart highlighting the sharp and deeply consequential differences between the former vice president's newly unveiled healthcare plan and Medicare for All.

While Medicare for All would provide "health coverage to everyone," the chart says, Biden's plan to bolster the Affordable Care Act and add a public option would leave "nearly 10 million people uninsured" and hit tens of millions more with "high co-pays and deductibles that will leave too many people at the mercy of insurers and drug companies."

"Biden's plan would preserve a broken system," said the Sanders campaign. "According to a recent survey, as many as one in four adults go without insurance at some point in a given year. That's fifty million people. By age 50, the average worker has held 12 jobs. Under Biden's plan, this broken and fractured system would be maintained."



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"At the end of the day," Sanders tweeted, "you've either got to be on the side of the people or the side of the health insurance companies. I know which side I'm on."

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/16/difference-thousands-lives-sanders-releases-chart-contrasting-bidens-incremental

[SouthernProgressive]

1. Sanders has now clearly established himself as the enemy of progressives.

With his ego I think we are looking at a third party run by him. He is being rejected and is lashing out. He wants to cause harm to those he believes should be worshiping at his feet.

The damage he is starting to do is real. He will fight to make sure Trump gets a second term. There are signs of his extreme ego that go back a half a century.

[roody]

2. He is the OG of progressives.

[SouthernProgressive]

3. I've heard that is what he thinks.

The MLK of today’s civil rights movement.

No doubt he thinks it all started with him. Excellent way to phrase it.

[roody]

5. I did not hear that. I did hear

Trevor Noah say it. As one of his one million volunteers, I think it. You can go back 30 years and hear Bernie's core beliefs. He has been consistent on the issues.

[SouthernProgressive]

6. I believe you think he is the original.

No doubt.

Doesn’t matter how offensive it is. Some simply believe. Very religious in nature. The greatest misconception about him is the thought he is consistent. The only thing he is consistent about is not being able to generate a coalition.

[ucrdem]

4. He left out the "does not exist" column.

[SidDithers]

7. commondreams...nt

Sid