This is the Tom Hartman program. And welcome to our program.

Tom Hartman here with you. There's so much going on we're going to get into today.

This political calculus that is being so much going on we're going to get into today.

This political calculus that is being discussed across the board,

there is an interesting piece in the Axios newsletter

pointing out that since Elizabeth Warren came out

with how she was going to pay for her

Medicare for all plan roughly 70% of all the news coverage of that proposal to

pay for Medicare for all from Elizabeth Warren. Roughly 70% of all the

coverage has been negative and it's been negative for fairly obvious reasons.

I mean you know apparently from my Twitter feed despite in

watching him morning jose but

carol one of our regular tweeters

noted that basically they spent a lot of time attacking Elizabeth

Warren and medic Medicare for all.

There's three kinds of thought on this.

And I'd love to hear your take on these three positions.

One position is basically the Joe Biden position.

Everything is good and let's just strengthen Obamacare and you know we can have a

conversation about a public option but let's just strengthen Obamacare and take it back so it covers

everybody in the country. The second is more kind of Pete Buttiges thing which is

let's have a public option you can have Medicare if you want it otherwise you

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