Medicare for All with Abdul El-Sayed

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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What would it mean to have Medicare for All? The issue of healthcare emerged as a key campaign fight in the coming midterm elections, with ads and debate questions centered on coverage of pre-existing conditions. While Republicans dig deeper into a fear mongering campaign that Medicare for All means Medicare for none, a growing number of Democrats are throwing their support behind single payer healthcare. Although Medicare for All is proving popular in polling, the left has a lot of work to do if they want to embrace it as a political project. Abdul El-Sayed has put a lot of thought into exactly that, having worked as the Health Director of Detroit and then ran on a universal healthcare platform in his recent bid for Governor of Michigan. Email us at [email protected] Tweet using #WITHpod Read more at nbcnews.com/whyisthishappening

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0:00.0	I push back on the socialism label,
0:02.5	simply because we've moved so far to the right in this country,
0:06.3	that when we talk about collective action on anything,
0:09.0	right, people are like, well, that's socialism.
0:10.4	No, it's not.
0:11.1	It's about providing people a basic access
0:13.5	to things that they need to live a dignified life.
0:15.5	Is it socialism to build roads?
0:17.1	Is it socialism to make sure that the air is clean?
0:19.0	I don't think it is.
0:19.8	I just think that's a good government,
0:20.9	because in the end, the whole point of government
0:22.9	where people coming together
0:24.1	tacked collectively in the best interest of all of us.
0:26.4	That's what government is.
0:27.6	Welcome to Wise is happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.
0:36.3	So, healthcare politics.
0:38.9	Pretty crazy out there.
0:40.2	I don't know if you've been paying much attention,
0:41.6	but there's a lot of really fascinating things
0:44.8	happening with healthcare politics in the country.
0:47.2	One of them is that Republicans are just lying
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