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June 30, 2019
Have to be working in this country, you have to be paid in taxes, the basic point was, you are in this country legally or illegally you get health insurance coverage paid. >> and its insurance program, there to pay into it. immigrants including undocumented pay billions of dollars in taxes. and thats the reality. and what democrats also said which is far different from the republicans, if we have a pre-existing condition, you should be able to keep her coverage. democrats believe that healthcare...
June 29, 2019
Where we really helped to crystallize where we are and where we need to go and what the differences are is in health care, because every candidate believes that every person in this country should have access to quality affordable health care. were 90% of the way there thanks to barack obama and lbj and other democrats, and we had a spirited discussion about how to get to the mountaintop, that final 10%. some people believe that we should have a single payer model, medicare for all. others belie...
June 29, 2019
Grits and the only way to get the way with the old farts was to deal with them. he hasnt said that. and bobby kennedy, too, sweet talk them and drink their bourbon. i guess it is a hard to explain it to young people of color, who had no idea, had greater challenges like biden or me, that challenge was legislative. you didnt get a damned thing done unless you kissed up to these awful people like eastland. what do you think? they both had experiences different. excuse my french. >> chris, it is in...
June 28, 2019
Need for the federal government and presidents of the past like kennedy, like lbj having the courage to bring the federal government in to stop states from sanctioning the kind of bigotry and bias that was so hurting african-american communities. >> let me ask you about the issue of private insurance, medicare for all and health care in general. on the debate stage last night the candidates were asked to raise their hands if they would favor doing away with private insurance in order to get medi...
June 28, 2019
The last two nights, i think people saw the deep field that ive known as a democratic party. the most diverse field ever. the unity of values that we have is something that jumped off the page. were trying to get to 100% health care, universal coverage. were 90% of the way there, thanks to president obama and lbj and democrats. we had a spirited discussion about how to get to the mountain top, theres differences of opinion among candidates. no one candidate has a monopoly on the moral high groun...
June 28, 2019
Order the get it through. and you look at lbj who had to go after his own region. he had to go after white democrats. that history is real. but i have to tell you, kamala harris is only a little older than my sister. my sister was bussed. she was one of the first classes that was bussed in denver, colorado. and there was such an antipathy having little black kids come into town in white parts of denver, they built us a middle and high school to keep us in montebello. they didnt want us bussed ou...
June 27, 2019
Quality affordable health care. were 90% of the way there thanks to people like barack obama and lbj and other democrats. the discussion we would last night was how to get from 90% to 100% coverage. and then this question, yeah there were some candidates talking about medicare for all and thats a proposal that merits serious debate and discussion. and there were other candidates who supported a different pathway to 100%. and what i say to voters is you should take a look at all the candidates on...
June 27, 2019
Debates last night was the discussion about health care. heres where theres 100% agreement everyone believes that everyone in this country should have access to quality affordable health care. everyone believes that. thanks to democrats we are 90 plus percent of the way there thanks to obamacare, thanks to lbj, the republican opponents called socialism. and we had a debate last night about how to get from 90, 92% to the holy grail. and we saw differences of opinions. some were advocating for wha...
June 23, 2019
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June 22, 2019
Call and value knowledge and for them when they call -- they didnt call it value knowledge, they called it -- these are principles, these are virtues and these are objective forces of authority so you could never separate those two. >> and really theres a clash isntrk there between the principle and declaration of independence and the principle of undergird our government document the constitution and progressive ideology that progressive agenda, and the massive administrative state which really...