Warren Is Good, But WHY Is She Hedging On Medicare For All?

Elizabeth Warren is far from a perfect candidate, but could progressives make her one? Michael Brooks and the Majority Report crew discuss this.

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Warren Is Good, But WHY Is She Hedging On Medicare For All?

46 thoughts on “Warren Is Good, But WHY Is She Hedging On Medicare For All?

    • +Ryan G do you think we can live in a world that has absolutely no enforcement of rules? Or do you think we just dont live in a society with rules?

    • +Primary Simcha Felder do you not still see how conservative your argument is? Law and order bullshit. You need to look into leftist, communal policing.

    • +Primary Simcha Felder yeah I am kinda, libertarianism started out on the left with libertarian socialism. I’m not very well versed in the topic particularly of leftist policing but you should see how fundamentally fucked up the current system is.

  1. I’m just not sold on Warren. I think she’s great for Senate or a wonderful cabinet member in a progressive administration, but she doesn’t have the backbone to actually run the country. She’s too open to compromising and, frankly, I don’t trust her. I don’t trust her to go all out and fight for M4A, as well as other reforms we need. There was a lot of grandstanding in her town hall, a lot of “bring everyone to the table and talk about it”…no. Just stop.The time for talk is done. We need action right now, and I believe Warren us too chummy with the establishment wing of Washington to enact true change. She’s also open to taking big donor money in the general, and that’s an automatic disqualifier for me. Her willingness to take big donations could also be indicative to the reason she flip-flops so much on M4A. That could be her way of sending a “wink” to her donors, telling them she’s open to compromising on M4A.

    It’s a no for me.

    • what her Tyt interview, when he said Cenk that Manchin is just a great guy and she support him, who cares if he votes with trump 99% of the time.

    • the title of this video is amusing. “why would a non-radical politician not be radical? so weird?” Bernie is the one dragging people slightly to the left. Warren is ex-Republican and Harvard Law, she just keeps getting dragged left. has she proposed some interesting policies? sure. but I can’t trust her to fight for beliefs that she doesn’t have.

  2. That union guy is infuriating and i bet he’s a plant. I love unions but they’re nothing more than capitalist stand in for a system that doesnt have solid employee protections. This dude is a union shill.

    • Primary Simcha Felder
      Yeah but given that the system does not have solid protections, unions are the best we have.

      I wouldn’t blame all unions for this guy. It wasn’t a bright question, really. Of course the response should’ve been something along the lines of: “I see what you’re saying, but the good news is that you’re still gonna have the healthcare you fought for and when I become president, so will everyone else”

    • +Pano 360 yeah I just reread my tweet and it seems alot more condescending towards unions than I wanted it to be.

      I agree with you actually, they are all we got and they arent all bad. My problems with unions, as opposed to stronger government over sight, is that they have become beurecratic in many ways. And that beuracracy very often has a mind of it’s own and is trying to protect itself. And by beuracracy I’m not necessarily talking about the workers but the union reps and admin. It’s why alot of them oppose medicsre for all, why they probably sent this guy in there. They dont want to lose their relevance.

      Totally think we need unions and I’d rather live with them than without but it’s a difficult conversation because a would be ally in more respects than I’m comfortable with is actually an enemy

    • He probably doesn’t belong to Union at all and he’s probably a paid actor or rather somebody who has a different job entirely and is just lying. We saw that CNN lied about the jobs of people in the Bernie and Tulsi Town Halls.

  3. The ACA is not the best starting point. Why try to save the ACA, it’s a shell of even its intended self and even that was a Republican plan from Mitt Romney’s governorship.

    • +Harry Stoddard Switzerland, The Netherlands, and Japan all have universal healthcare by virtue of a government mandate.

      The ACA was a massive expansion in Medicaid, but it was made smaller because Republican governors didn’t take the expansion.

      If those GOP govs were Dems, millions more people would have had coverage over the past half decade.

    • +MrOttopantsThat’s a lot of hypotheticals and ifs. The fact is that in this political and economic environment—not Japan’s, not Switzerland’s—it is going to be basically impossible, and, more importantly, unsustainable, to get to a universal healthcare plan with a duct taped-together hodgepodge of private insurance, medicaid, the ACA, and ever-eroding employer coverage. It may seem like the smarter, more practical solution right now, and maybe you can get asymptotically close to something decent, but you will never get heliocentric ellipses from epicycles. You won’t fix arguably the least efficient, most expensive health system in the modern world by putting private insurance on life support. Moreover, M4A has huge bipartisan support—not among politicians, but among the population.

  4. Any politician who isn’t completely for single-payer is a waste of my goddamn time and I will never vote for them

    • Amen Scott, it’s how many people feel about it, not one penny of their money to help someone else but they want other’s tax money to support them. We have a sickness among American people called Ayn Rand syndrome.

  5. Let me tell you, just because you’re in a Union and have employer based healthcare doesn’t mean it’s good and doesn’t mean it’s cheap. So whenever somebody uses that talking point it’s bullshit!

    • yeah, employer-based health-care is just a prison. it forces people to keep bad jobs to literally not die from poor health.

  6. Medicare for all is one of the most important issues I care about. I think any system where people can make profit off others sickness is immoral

    • You fail to understand that this system would never work. This system would eventually collapse and implode. Usually these types of programs are government controlled. This leads to corruption and graft….just look at Venezuela to see the results of government (socialized) programs.

    • +Ohio State what about every other major country in the world that all have public heath systems? Is the UK socialist? What about Canada? It’s not socialist its common sense. Venezuela is so hated by the us because Chavez seized the oil companies and used the profits for education and healthcare for his people. The plummeting price of oil and US sanctions are what caused the crisis there not your very broad definition of socialism.

    • +Ratchet Miata

      I included Canada as their health care system forces people into long waits for much needed surgery. Venezuelans are suffering under Chavez and now Maduro because of their socialist policies. You must not watch the news much. I say that because people are starving in Venezuela. Crime is high, as is the murder rate….despite, or because of, their tough gun laws. The rich are doing well in Venezuela though….the ones suffering are the middle class….which are now poor the poor who were thrown deeper into poverty due to socialist policies that were designed to fail.

  7. Why is it that almost all european countries has excellent healthcare for all, not just the rich? And it’s working. Why are the US so stubborn not to look for solutions that work, but hanging on to the worst system of all among developed countries? We’re not communists, you know.

  8. Here’s how you answer that universal healthcare question:
    Unions have fought for health plans for workers precisely because something like M4A did not exist.
    The private health insurance industry increases the cost of care relative to what we see in countries that have single payer systems, and because costs for care are increasing at a rapid rate, employers try and often succeed, every time contracts are renewed, to cut coverage.
    That means that the great healthcare you had in the 70s, 80s, and even the 90s, was is the 00s good, in the 10s decent but becoming less affordable—higher copays, higher deductibles, etc.—and in the future will be further eroded into the most basic and burdensome gesture toward insurance.
    The way to obviate this development is through a single payer plan that will in the long term control costs and puts everyone into the same pool.
    So if you are happy, right now, with the standard of care offered by your employer, the only way to maintain that standard is through M4A.

  9. a lot of people stay on their job just because of the health care benefits. It’s too risky to live in America without a health plan

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