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Showing Original Post only (View all)Sherrod Brown: The progressive Democrat who isn't running on 'Medicare for all' or a 'Green New Deal [View all]
Yahoo News:If you ran, you might be the only candidate who doesnt support full-tilt Medicare-for-all. Why not? Its basically the password to get into the Democratic primary these days.
Well, I'll start with this: I fought for universal coverage my whole career. I promised to pay my own health insurance until we got universal coverage and I did. Now my wife and I are in the Obamacare exchanges, like millions of other people. I wrote the original Medicare at 55 voluntary buy-in. I wrote the public option, with Sheldon Whitehouse, that was originally in the Affordable Care Act.
I want to get something done. I see too many 58-year-olds and 62-year-olds whose plants have closed going without insurance; they just have to stay alive until they're 65 to get it. I mean, I can do the talking points. I want to get to Medicare for all. But I think we can get Medicare at 55, and 55's OK with me too. Then we move towards Medicare for all. But I just don't know how it happens in this political climate.
Well, I'll start with this: I fought for universal coverage my whole career. I promised to pay my own health insurance until we got universal coverage and I did. Now my wife and I are in the Obamacare exchanges, like millions of other people. I wrote the original Medicare at 55 voluntary buy-in. I wrote the public option, with Sheldon Whitehouse, that was originally in the Affordable Care Act.
I want to get something done. I see too many 58-year-olds and 62-year-olds whose plants have closed going without insurance; they just have to stay alive until they're 65 to get it. I mean, I can do the talking points. I want to get to Medicare for all. But I think we can get Medicare at 55, and 55's OK with me too. Then we move towards Medicare for all. But I just don't know how it happens in this political climate.
What about a Green New Deal? That's the other hot topic on the left.
Yeah, well, first of all, I don't know exactly what that means. The New Deal was a bunch of things put together: the Wagner Act, Social Security, the minimum wage, collective bargaining, Medicare. So I think the Green New Deal is a wonderful term. I think that climate change is the greatest moral issue of our times, and that we need to address it directly, and deeply, and consistently, and comprehensively. I think that there will be many components of what we do to address climate change, and I've been part of those efforts in the past.
Yeah, well, first of all, I don't know exactly what that means. The New Deal was a bunch of things put together: the Wagner Act, Social Security, the minimum wage, collective bargaining, Medicare. So I think the Green New Deal is a wonderful term. I think that climate change is the greatest moral issue of our times, and that we need to address it directly, and deeply, and consistently, and comprehensively. I think that there will be many components of what we do to address climate change, and I've been part of those efforts in the past.
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Sherrod Brown: The progressive Democrat who isn't running on 'Medicare for all' or a 'Green New Deal [View all]
brooklynite
Jan 2019
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Knowing that you'll fight for the best option will get people to vote for you....
doompatrol39
Jan 2019
#7
In 2016 Bernie Sanders campaigned on Medicare for All...and Hillary Clinton didn't
brooklynite
Jan 2019
#9
she would have won the nomination even if she did campaign on medicare for all
AlexSFCA
Jan 2019
#18
I agree. He may have a point, but it sounds wishy-washy in an election context.
tinrobot
Jan 2019
#51
If a toss up between two great potential candidates, that's a concern of mine too
Tom Rinaldo
Jan 2019
#13
In the primary, Medicare For All and Green New Deal are my touchpoints. Won't support
Nanjeanne
Jan 2019
#30
He's my Senator. One thing about him that can't be denied is that he is a champion for the
Cousin Dupree
Jan 2019
#33
What I see in his health care position, he is offering a workable path to the actual desired result,
ooky
Jan 2019
#43
Sherrod Brown Wins In Ohio Where Almost No Other Democrat Can Because..........
ChoppinBroccoli
Feb 2019
#52