Ana Kasparian has an article out
Elizabeth Warren's vagueness on 'Medicare for All' isn't fooling anyone
thehill.com/…
Some highlights:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who famously “has a plan” for everything, doesn’t seem to have a concrete plan on healthcare. She unequivocally supports "Medicare for All" on the debate stage, which several centrist Democrats have disingenuously done. But her take on a single-payer health-care system isn’t quite as strong on the campaign trail.
The latest example was when Warren referred to Medicare for All as a “framework” during a recent town hall in New Hampshire.
"Right now, what we've got in Medicare for All is a framework,” Warren said in response to a question about the transition period should the policy come into effect. “It doesn't have the details and you're right to be asking. But the most important part of your asking is to raise awareness so we get this right as we go through it," she continued.
Warren’s webpage on health-care uses some of the arguments popularized by Bernie and supporters of Medicare for All, including the statement that “health care is a human right.” But as several progressive outlets have noted, her website fails to mention anything too specific, including whether she would eliminate private insurers, or what would happen with co-pays and deductibles.
If she is barely committed to Medicare for All in the Democratic primary, how will she act in the general or when in office? She won’t find a safer place to embrace Medicare For All than right now and if she can’t then she certainly won’t fight hard for it. Working people need someone fully committed to Medicare for All. That person is Bernie Sanders.
As Elizabeth Warren’s white crowd at an HBCU circulates, it is important to see her for what she is: awesome on Wall Street but not nearly as progressive as Bernie on issues for working people. I believe that her base of over-educated white progressives don’t really get the life and death importance of real Medicare for All and Bernie’s campaign.
I’m an over educated white liberal myself and “we” have in the past made fun of “dumb whites” who vote against their own interest in supporting Bush etc. Please don’t be suckered into a 2nd best option when you have the chance to have Bernie, someone truly committed to social change. Warren was a Republican at age 47! It’s not terrible but let’s not do a slightly better version of well meaning Obama centrism again just because they taught in college.