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🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | Let's start the debate with the number one issue for Democratic voters, health care. |
0:04.6 | And Senator Sanders, let's start with you. You support Medicare for all, |
0:08.4 | which would eventually take private health insurance away from more than 150 million Americans in |
0:12.9 | exchange for government-sponsored health care for everyone. |
0:16.7 | Congressman Delaney just referred to it as bad policy and previously he has |
0:21.8 | called the idea political suicide that will just |
0:24.6 | get President Trump reelected. What do you say to Congressman Delaney? |
0:28.3 | You're wrong. |
0:32.3 | Last Tuesday's debate was a glorious show of the enduring power of progressive politics. |
0:40.0 | I get a little bit tired of Democrats afraid of big ideas. |
0:45.6 | Republicans are not afraid of big ideas. |
0:48.4 | They could give a trillion dollars in tax breaks |
0:51.2 | to billionaires and profitable corporations. They can bail out the crooks on Wall Street. |
0:57.7 | So please don't tell me that we cannot take on the fossil fuel industry and nothing happens unless we do that. |
1:06.2 | Standing together at the center of the stage, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren |
1:11.8 | withstood a barrage of bad faith attacks on progressive |
1:15.4 | policies so laden with conservative assumptions that they might as well have |
1:19.5 | been written by Fox News. Would you raise taxes on the middle class to pay for Medicare for all? |
1:24.6 | Senator Sanders, you want to provide undocumented immigrants free health care and free college. |
1:30.4 | Why won't this drive even more people to come to the US illegally? |
1:34.0 | If Medicare for All is enacted, there are more than 600,000 union members here in Michigan |
1:39.0 | who would be forced to give up their private health care plans. |
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