Ro Khanna Brilliantly Answers Medicare For All Criticisms

Ro Khanna knows the pros and cons of Medicare For All, and he realizes what we have to do to make it work. Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss this.

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Ro Khanna Brilliantly Answers Medicare For All Criticisms

44 thoughts on “Ro Khanna Brilliantly Answers Medicare For All Criticisms

  1. Despite having a moralizing segment at the end of his show (like Jerry Springer), Chris Cuomo is also an establishment hack. Sure, he was okay with Ro Khanna, but Cuomo’s fangs come out for Bernie (like the town hall) when Bernie takes the invitation to appear.

    • Agreed. Chris Cuomo is admittedly more tolerable than most CNN hosts, or MSM in general, but a less shitty hack is still a hack.

  2. The federal job guarantee will take care of anyone who is displaced out of the private insurance field. Sanders Turner 2020

    • “People who are living pay check to pay check cannot afford to simply pick up shop and move to another state.”
      They should vote republicans out then, its not a dictatorship. What you’re implying is catch 20/20.

    • +TheEvolver311Again with the catch 20/20.
      How am I blaming the Victims?! When I want them to vote for their interest.
      We should try to force their hand, and tell the people to vote them out if they oppose highly popular programs that would help their states.

    • +Mohamed Faisal You literally said you didn’t care if it failed in states that elect GOP as the majority and that they should move willy nilly or just not vote GOP as if 100% of the states residents voted for the GOP as opposed to say 51% v 49%. Its the political equivalent of telling a rape victim they shouldn’t have dressed that way if they didn’t want to get raped.

      Still my broader point was that it failing in states like GA, SC, NC, TN, TX etc… will be the baseline for discontent nationally about the program the same way it has been with the ACA. This is a governing mechanism which the GOP uses to advance their politics intentional mismanagement of Government functions. It also doesn’t hurt them politically because their message is that Government should not and will always fail at operating anything and they are in position in which they can mismanage operations to produce results which support their rhetoric.

  3. I can’t believe there are still people who genuinely want to continue experiencing the atrocious private healthcare system.
    All my life, HMOs and healthcare corporations were always seen as an evil entity that was material for comedy or parody in American culture. The only thing that was more reviled were lawyers, the DMV and the IRS.

    • +Nancy Mesek
      Hi Nancy, hope you’re well.
      It’s such a terrible system, but until I reading that it didn’t occur to me that anyone had to share private and possibly embarrassing info with someone who has no knowledge or any training on how to treat people in these situations. I don’t know how anyone tries to defend it. I have had incredible and free at the point of entry care my whole life, despite what the Tories and Blairites have done to the NHS.

    • DISCO-INFERNO-70 It seems that majority report is the land fill where they bring all the stupid left wing ideas and dump them off.

  4. This is one of the first thing I thought about M4A. It’s weird to see none in MSM discussing this. Probably they have read Bernie’s plan and know he has a good transition plan, or they are getting discussion topic from twitter trolls.

  5. 16.53, Coumo saying we need to find this digestible to Americans. Umm, 70% of Americans support Medicare for all, so I think their digestive system is working quite well on this subject.

  6. Growing up in North Carolina back in the 1990s in what amounted to an upper middle class white evangelical family (I rebelled and became Episcopalian at 16, it was actually a scandal no joke, but that’s a different story)… I remember Rush Limbaugh’s voice was everywhere from noon to 3pm. And then after that you had “Dr” Laura Schlesinger. And 9am to noon we had some local fascist on the air.

    And the message that all these guys were pushing could all be boiled down to fear, hatred of anything other, racism, misogyny, homophobia, Islamophobia, “kill people and break things” War hawkers, etc. If I got in the car, it I was sitting in a waiting room, if I was with my dad and went into someone’s office in his building. It was just omnipresent.

    At this time it didn’t strike me as out of the ordinary because I grew up around it. But when I went to college and spent years away from that media diet, I started to realize how cuckoo at all was, and probably still is.

    But to Sam’s point… this works. This motivates Republicans consistently. Democrats do not have this cultural driver.

    • They took over talk radio. As a blue collar schmuck it blows my mind the amount of coworkers that swallow it blindly against their own better interests. Daily propaganda

    • The fact that the elites in the media and the Democratic establishment weren’t aware of the impact of hate radio for the past 30 years goes a long way to explaining why they were shocked when Trump won.

  7. When company’s like Amazon and Walmart take over and thousands of employees in retail stores lose their jobs, it’s called progress and they’re told to deal with it. when government tries to progress energy and healthcare, it’s OHHH NO what about the people losing their jobs.

    • That’s a good way to put it, James. I’ve been unemployed for over a year, me and lots of other people. Not once has our health insurance company lowered our premiums or copays to help us out until we have more $$ coming in. I had surgery this past year and we’re still paying off a $1000 bill for it …and we have so-called good insurance. I’m told to suck it up, pull myself up by the bootstraps, drive for Uber, do some dog walking, clean houses….so I say the same to those insurance employees. Sorry, but I have no sympathy.

    • @James Beech – That’s a great case of whataboutism. How about the argument that its bullshit when BOTH Amazon/Walmart and the government cause people to lose their jobs? Your argument that because Amazon gets away with it, that the government should be able to, is bologna.

    • +rek131
      I believe that he was talking about partisanship favoring big business (That’s what I took from it). The thing is, you can’t or shouldn’t compare the two entities because they have two different agendas. A big comany like say Amazon or Wal-Mart is a for profit is beholden to it’s investors. So if they have to cut jobs because of innovation that is justifiable because it is progress. Whereas the government is beholden to the people and has the responsibility to the population and act in their interests. The fact is social programs like police, emergency medical, military are social programs that benefit the greater population at the expense of a few.

  8. The media is now asking congressman to inform the public America is backwards
    Ro should have said no that’s your job.

  9. It’s amazing how politicians are pro capitalist, but the second one of their huge donor companies is about to go bankrupt they become socialists to save that corporation.

  10. It’s akin to hesitating in shutting down concentration camps, for fear of the camp guards being unemployed

  11. The job loss the caller is talking about is called structural unemployment, and it can’t really be avoided. It’s what happened to workers in the horse-carriage industry when the car became widespread.

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