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Sep 10 2024
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What Kamala Harris learned from embracing, abandoning Medicare-for-all
Harris first embraced a plan in 2017 by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to remake the nation’s health system and eliminate private insurance, a proposal that worried many Americans who feared losing access to their doctors. But after the blowback following her June 2019 debate pledge, Harris a month later offered her own compromise plan that would have preserved a role for private health insurance
Washington PostAug 22 2024
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Despite Trump’s Accusations, Democrats Have Largely Avoided Medicare for All
You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. The prospects for Medicare for All legislation have dimmed during President Biden’s term, forcing progressive Democrats to reassess their strategy in a difficult political climate. Tap the Play button at the top of any article to hear it read aloud. The policy has played little role at the Democratic National Convention.
New York Times (News)Aug 14 2024
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Trump Campaign Rips Kamala Harris's Medicare for All Flip Flop
The Trump campaign slammed Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday for allegedly flip-flopping on her support of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) “Medicare for All” legislation in 2019. Harris allegedly does not support the legislation anymore, according to an anonymous campaign aide. Neither Harris nor campaign aides have yet to fully embrace the changed policy positions in on-the-
Breitbart NewsAug 14 2024
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There She Goes Again: Harris Flip-Flops on Medicare For All, Campaign Says She Will Not Push It
As she has with every other meaningful position that Vice President Kamala Harris has taken in the past, she has now predictably flip-flopped on her support for Medicare-for-All. Add it to the list of recent reversals that includes banning fracking, mandatory gun buyback programs, taxation on tips, and border security. Curiously, Harris’ views on all of these issues have taken a sudden turn to
Western JournalAug 13 2024
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Harris campaign says she will not push 'Medicare-for-all' plan despite previous support
Vice President Harris appears to be singing a different tune when it comes to ensuring "Medicare-for-all," compared to when she ran for president in 2019. A campaign official told Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy that Harris will not push the subject of single-payer or "Medicare-for-all" this go around, as she seeks her first term as commander-in-chief. In 2019, Fox News
Fox News DigitalAug 28 2024
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Slotkin did not a vote for a Medicare ‘cut’
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers recently accused his opponent, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., of voting to cut Medicare benefits. Slotkin "voted to cut Medicare benefits for seniors just two years ago," Rogers’ campaign wrote in a recent blog post. After we contacted the campaign for comment, the item was deleted. The blog post linked to a Wall Street Journal opinion column written
PolitiFactAug 26 2024
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Sen. Cotton clashes with ABC's Jonathan Karl after he dismissed Harris' past support for Medicare-for-all
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., pushed back against ABC News' Jonathan Karl after he dismissed Vice President Kamala Harris' past commitment to abolish private health insurance in a heated on-air exchange Sunday. In an interview on ABC's "This Week," Cotton railed against Harris over her support for policies "like supporting decriminalizing immigration, or giving taxpayer funded health insurance to
Fox News DigitalSep 10 2024
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Kamala Harris Screwed Seniors with Skyrocketing Medicare Premiums
The following content is sponsored by Americans for Limited Government. At the second first presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris will claim she capped prescription drug costs so that she can say she took on big drug companies. Sure enough, ahead of her debate, Harris released a new list of policies on her campaign website. She claims: “Just as she did as Vice President, she will
Breitbart NewsSep 08 2024
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900,000 Americans on Medicare warned of data breach
More than 900,000 people in Wisconsin with Medicare have been warned that their personal information may have been stolen after a data breach last year which targeted the MOVEit file transfer service. The data breach occurred between May 27 and May 31, 2023, when "unauthorized third parties" gained access to beneficiaries' personal information on MOVEit due to a "vulnerability" in the online
NewsweekSep 06 2024
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Zagotta: Medicare insurer bailout exposes IRA failures
In a move that lays bare the flaws of the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare officials just scrambled to announce a federal subsidy that could total $23 billion yearly to prevent Medicare’s prescription drug benefit from collapsing. In a classic case of unintended — if utterly predictable — consequences, this insurer bailout shows how the IRA ends up harming the seniors it was supposed to
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