Sen. Sherrod Brown used right-wing tactics for refusing to support Medicare For All. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. More TYT:
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"Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Sunday called for expanding Medicare to people who are 50 years and older rather than pushing for 'Medicare for all,' a popular option for many potential Democratic 2020 nominees.
Brown, who is considering running for president and who has said Medicare for all isn't practical, said Sunday on CNN's 'State of the Union' that he wants to 'help people now.' His proposal would create a voluntary buy-in to Medicare for people who are 50 and older.
'I want to expand Medicare to 50,' he added. 'Now, if we get enough people, we will see a lot of people get in — in that plan, 58-year-olds and 62-year-olds that have lost their insurance, lost their jobs. We will see the success of that, and that will end up continuing to broaden and expand coverage for so many Americans.'"
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HIS POLITICAL CAREER IS OVER! THIS WILL BE HIS LAST TERM IN OFFICE!
Lol, no it won’t. He’s still a Progressive.
Death blow to his political aspirations
Have you ever heard of VA hospitals… I don’t want government healthcare at all. What we need is legislation to stop price gouging.
+Octopus Prime you’re dumb
Read about the deinstitutionalization of the 60s – today.
Corporate democrats are almost as bad as republicans.
Trumpanzee Hunter No “almost” about it. They give irrefutable proof why we need *real* progressives in government right now.
Corporate democrats are the moderate wing of the GOP, it’s been that way since 92, thanks to Bill Clinton and the DLC.
Trumpanzee Hunter: The only redeeming traits that Corporate Democrats have over their GOP counterparts is that they don’t cater to Racists, Xenophobes, Islamophobes, Misogynists or Homophobes……… yet.
ALMOST!?…THEY ARE !!??
Its 2019. Democrats need to support M4A full stop. It costs less than the system we have. 30k americans die every year because they can’t afford healthcare. The ACA is unsustainable and premiums keep rising. This isnt debatable. If you’re an elected democrat fighting against M4A you’re a liability. I cover the issue of healthcare on my channel often. Extremely disappointed in sharod brown. Might post a video on this later this week
+Octopus Prime – The healthcare institutions would remain the same. It’s just the majority of the healthcare insurance industry that would be going away.
lol, look up the Deinstitutionalization.
Unapologetic: Initially Barak Obama wanted a single-payer system and the ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies included in the ACA. This would have been instrumental in helping to lower the costs associated with healthcare. In the end he had to water it down to appease the GOP and Corporate Democrats in the House and Senate. Big Pharm, the AMA and the Health Insurance Industry have most of our politicians in their pocket and they’re holding on to them for dear life.
Remove FDA regulation on pharmaceuticals and import them from mexico.
Ryan, I do not believe that at all.
He’s staking out the middle of the road, status quo territory. He’ll have to push Starbucks dude out of the way.
With Democrats like Sherrod Brown, who needs Republicans!
To be fair, Brown is one of the most progressive Senators on most other economic issues. He’s simply jealous that Bernie’s Med4All gets all the attention…
Cenk you are the best dude! Credit when credit is due, always.
Omg that voice. The opposite of Tulsi Gabbard
Healthcare is a right
Education is a right
Healthy food is a right
Shelter is a right
Water and electricity are rights
And so on…
Not just for Americans but for all humans.
The power structures that exist that block these basic rights need to be banished from existence.
Again, they are not RIGHTS moron. +Drift Boat
none of those are rights, where do you get this from? A right means you have the right to access it, not that the government (taxes) will pay for it. Healthcare, you have the right to access. Education is free for students, however post education is a luxury. Define healthy, you have the right to access shelter and electricity. These are rights you already have, you just see a different vision of how they are to be accessed
Merritt Twitty those are rights for a baby, but adults take care of themselves
I like Sherrod Brown. This was really disappointing, he was one of my favorite candidates for 2020, on my short list of people I like.
But now he’s definitely off it. M4all or bust. But he can still be an ally in the senate.
I love Sherrod. He’s pretty much perfect in every other category, but if he doesn’t support M4A he won’t be president
if we had medicare for all years ago then my mom would still be alive
i feel sorry for your lost, I live in Austria, we have medicare for all, if you work or not work, your automatically covered, you pay for the first 28 days , i think it is like 12 € per day after that state insurance covers you for the rest of your stay. Paying this small amount was never a problem, the states helps you even there out, when you cant pay.
If you live alone or your partner and you have to less money, MEDICINE IS FREE for you. You dont pay for operations. If you are sick and you dont have the ability of going to your chemo, radiotherapy or dialysis, the states pays the transport costs from your home to the Hospital and again back to your home. Your transport is for free.
And Medicine basically is cheap, my father pays for his heart medicine like 20€ per month.
Austria is social country, social means for us to help everyone who is need, it is also christian value of helping your neighbor, your friend, your fellow citizen in dire times, even the most conservative Austrians believe in the systems of medicare for all. Americans need to wake up, that the time of people dying becoz they could not afford to pay for the medicine or operations or something is over.
+ibo beko thank you and as for waking america up i think trump may have unintentionally done just that
Medicare for 50? Hell yeah. If I don’t die before 50 I’ll have some sweet coverage
What a disappointment
I used to really like him
The only way to fix healthcare is Medicare for All, ditch private health insurance companies which will lower drug costs,so there’s no competition .
I went bankrupt at 35 paying for healthcare when my Remicade infusions would have been covered in Mexico and Canada and the U.K. It’s not right what’s happening here in the US
So you are for a single monopoly system of just one health care insurer who can charge whatever they want.
+MontanaMountainMen Don’t put words in his mouth. Your bloody system bankrupts people. Ours do not.
+lcyw20 Oh really but you lunatics want to destroy this nation. You think people will just set back and let you, you are a special kind of stupid aren’t you.
Just take a bit of the Military budget and that will cover universal healthcare. I could fix it tomorrow.
WHO’S PAYING HIM OFF!?
come the primaries
*VOTE OUT THE SELL OUTS!*
His voice sounds like alex jones or something.
DAMN! You hit the nail right on the head with that one.
HEALTH CARE SHOULD BE A RIGHT NOT A PRIVILEDGE
By the way. I lived over 10 years in the UK. People were ALL covered, everywhere in the country by the NHS. HOWEVER, YOU COULD STILL GO PRIVATE WHEREEVER AND WHENEVER YOU FELT LIKE IT. Where do these political hacks get off trying to imply you couldn’t still go private if you wanted to?
And furthermore the NHS is much more ‘radical’ than medicare for all because it actually is government run healthcare. Medicare for all is only government run health insurance.
+Yes. Which could also work, seeing as a lot of countries run a mixed system of public and private care, including by ways of government health insurance.
Medicare for all. Nothing less.