Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumWhy I'm voting for Bernie Sanders: Type 1 diabetes taught me we need Medicare for All Opinion
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I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 35 years ago, when I was 4 years old. After earning my degree in psychology, I worked as a social worker for 10 years in foster care, substance abuse counseling, and school mental health services.
Im a mother of 8-year-old twins and Ive been a registered Democrat since I was 18. I have stood with my party all the way. But the time has come for real change. We need policy, not platitudes.
I am voting for Bernie Sanders.
Because of inconsistent access to affordable insurance and insulin, the damage to my kidneys is so extensive that I'm applying for a transplant. For 20 years, I faced the pre-existing condition roadblock and denials from insurance companies for specialist visits, insulin pumps and glucose monitoring systems. I can personally attest to the outrageous cost of all of the supplies necessary for diabetics to stay alive.
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https://www.floridatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/03/15/heres-why-im-voting-bernie-sanders-medicare-all/5042085002/
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
jimfields33
(18,442 posts)Stunning how we went from proponents of M4A to absolutely disgusted by the thought of it in a matter of weeks.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
showblue22
(1,026 posts)Bernie is hurting not helping the progressive movement. Bernie is not the only one with plans for some kind of universal healthcare. They way we get the best plan is to put all our heads together, work together and develop a plan. It's not, my plan, only my plan and everything else in inferior.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)supporting. Medicare for All 2020
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Turin_C3PO
(15,505 posts)on how to get universal healthcare. If we increase subsidies to working and middle class for health insurance and expand Medicaid further, a lot of our problems will be solved. Remember, Germany and France have a mix between private insurance and government coverage and their systems work great at providing cheap, accessible, quality, healthcare.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)compromise. Every Democrat should be on board, meaning its included in the party platform so we build a unified front against the lobbyists.
A virus is upon us and we are not prepared for many reasons, and without Medicare for All, it will be made worse.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Thekaspervote
(34,414 posts)Politics is always about compromise. Purity will get you absolutely nothing.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Turin_C3PO
(15,505 posts)is that we could not get M4A through Congress. Many Dems in the House are very moderate with a few that are bordering conservative. They will not vote for single payer. But they may go for expanding the ACA with a public option, increased subsidies, and further expanded Medicaid. That would certainly be better than nothing. Not perfect but on the right course.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)I hope Biden changes his mind.
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Turin_C3PO
(15,505 posts)the fact remains that theyll vote against it. And then well end up with nothing. And its not just big donors who are against removing private insurance. Many of our very own DUers have union health plans that they dont want to give up.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)No one in any union would have less care for it, and if/when they lose their jobs..think virus, they will have nothing.
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Turin_C3PO
(15,505 posts)But politics is the art of the possible. There will have to be compromise and coalition building to pass any type of healthcare improvements in this country. I wish it werent so but it is.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)We can build that fire wall against the Republicans, its popular policy.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
showblue22
(1,026 posts)His health care plan is not the only plan. We need to put our heads together and come up with one that will work. The more people we invite in to create the plan the better it will be. We don't have to accept only Bernie's. He didn't win.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Thekaspervote
(34,414 posts)The first dem to really push for universal health care was Hillary Rodman Clinton back in 90s.
Sanders likes his followers to believe he is the first one and the only one to ever work for universal health care...give it a rest!
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BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Warren and Sanders, that is who supported Medicare for All.
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Thekaspervote
(34,414 posts)Ask senator sanders or google it for yourself as to why a m4a program adopted in VT was such an abysmal failure
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Hav
(5,969 posts)and is in essence a part of a social system where the costs are distributed over all, how else can we have a sustainable system where people don't have to fear to go bankrupt once something happens?
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George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TwilightZone
(28,356 posts)"Our Revolution has taken in nearly $1 million from donors who gave more than the limits and whose identities it hasnt fully disclosed, according to tax filings for 2016, 2017 and 2018. Much of it came from those who contributed six-figure sums."
https://apnews.com/345bbd1af529cfb1e41305fa3ab1e604
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Medicare for All. He receives money from people who support those policies not ones who reject those policies.
Our Revolution, Accused of Dark-Money Spending for Sanders, Took Only Six Donations Over $5,000 in 2019, None Larger than $25,000
Aída Chávez
February 26 2020, 2:08 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/26/our-revolution-bernie-sanders-donor-contributions/
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TwilightZone
(28,356 posts)Not 2019. Nice try, though.
Watchdog group files FEC complaint:
https://apnews.com/cd7a58676b6fc8cbe2f9783f469d0bee
They're also wrong about 2019. Those donations haven't been disclosed.
"It wont have to publicly reveal its 2019 fundraising until after this years presidential election. And money it raises between now and then wont have to be disclosed until the following year. "
But then, it's the Intercept, so no surprise there.
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BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)and will help working class people.
What do think he is hiding, healthcare industry, Big Pharma funneling money to him?
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Thekaspervote
(34,414 posts)Relief bill among other things. They...those terrible, awful, nasty establishment Dems are the ONLY thing standing between us and the total annihilation of our constitution and democracy
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Thekaspervote
(34,414 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
gulliver
(13,318 posts)The large majority of people have healthcare, and they vote. They aren't going to vote in a government takeover of health care in one fell swoop. Sanders, for example, could never get anywhere with his proposal in the Senate. There's a reason for that. It has no chance.
Make a version of a Medicare Advantage plan a public option, and increase subsidies and Medicaid to cover all. We have a chance to do that now. We have proven success with Obamacare, despite Republican sabotage. We can build on it, and it will pass.
Medicare without an Advantage plan on top of it sucks anyway. There's no MOOP for one huge thing. We need to stop saying "Medicare for All." That probably conjures up visions in the minds of seniors of having to share a system that is already way too stingy and complicated. We need national health care that's better than Medicare.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Thekaspervote
(34,414 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ismnotwasm
(42,430 posts)No, not only Bernie Jesus Christ. How does one be a registered Democrat since I was 18
and arrive at that conclusion?
Yes we need universal healthcare. What we dont need is slogan politics
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Hav
(5,969 posts)the last thing you should do is putting your trust in BS helping you. You need solutions now.
Affordable insulin is a topic that pretty much all candidates have identified as a prime example of profiteering that endangers the lives of those in need.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
we can do it
(12,733 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Julian English
(434 posts)Medicare for all is a pipe dream. You can scream all you want for it, but the votes in the House aren't there, let alone the Senate.
There is a shortage of Medicare providers already. Many physicians won't see Medicare because the reimbursement sucks. Medicare for all doesn't address this.
Medicare for all is unrealistic when we can't even get fair drug prices for Medicare and Medicaid.
There is NO Republican support for it. The Supreme Court, now packed thanks to Sanders in 2016, is against it.
Thanks, BS, for screwing up 2016. Too bad you haven't learned a thing in 2020.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Stallion
(6,600 posts)there is, in addition, less than 1 in a 1000 chance that Bernie Sanders will be able to get elected AND Shepard Medicare for All through the 60 vote cloture majority to even get a vote on Medicare for All. So the real question you face is whether Joe Biden or Don Trump gives you the best option for your medical care. This is called logical, practical thinking
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
MineralMan
(147,334 posts)Clearly, Bernie Sanders will not be the Democratic nominee. If you're still holding out hope for that, it is a false hope.
Join us in getting Joe Biden elected in November, won't you?
Biden 2020
You Go, Joe!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden