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Should Private Health Insurance Be Banned?

Should Private Health Insurance Be Banned? In this Majority Report clip, Tim Faust joins us to talk Medicare For All.

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"Progressive political Twitter is abuzz on the issue of Medicare-for-all ahead of the second Democratic debate this week, with the latest back-and-forth spurred by Kamala Harris’s recently released health care plan. Harris on Monday unveiled what, exactly, she calls Medicare-for-all, leading disagreement with Bernie Sanders to finally boil over.

Harris had signed onto Sanders’s Medicare-for-all single-payer plan in the Senate when he reintroduced the bill to much fanfare in 2017, but a new proposal she is also calling Medicare-for-all looks very different. This plan, and these distinctions, are now garnering major pushback from Sanders’s high-level campaign staff. They argue that it’s a circuitous route to universal coverage designed to please industry, while not answering voters’ actual demands.

“Call it anything you want, but you can’t call this plan Medicare for All,” Sanders’s campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, said in a statement. “Folding to the interests of the health insurance industry is both bad policy and bad politics.”"*

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