cost $3 trillion. you will lose your employer based insurance and in fact, you know, this is the single most important issue facing the public and be very blunt and to be very straightforward, you can t beat president trump with double talk on this plan. your response, senator harris. absolutely. vice president biden you re simply inaccurate. the reality is our plan will bring health care to all americans under a medicare for all system. our plan will allow people to start signing up on the first day, babies will be born into our plan and right now, 4 million babies almost are born every day or every year in america under our plan we will ensure everyone has access to health care. your plan by contrast leaves out almost 10 million americans. so i think that you should really think about what you re saying but be reflective and understand that the people of america want access to health care and do not want cost to be
better than a bully in the white house. let s end this three-ring circus in washington and let s make this election about reclaiming our future for our kids and our democracy. empty promises won t beat donald trump, i can. governor jay inslee. good evening, i m jay inslee. i am running for president because the people in this room and the democrats watching tonight are the last best hope for humanity on this planet. if, if we make defeating the climate crisis the top priority of the united states, we will have a fighting chance to save ourselves and our children s future. it has to be our top priority. my plan is one of national mobilization. quickly bringing 100% clean energy to americans, creating 8
families who said four years is just not enough to transition into this new plan so i devised a plan where it will be ten years of transition. i listened to american families who said i want an option that will be under your medicare system that allows a private plan. so i designed a plan where yes, responsive to the needs of american families, there will be a public plan under my plan for medicare and the private plan under my plan for medicare. because the bottom line is this, we must agree that access to health care must be a right and not just a police officrivilege who can afford it. 30 million people are going without access to health care. thank you senator harris. vice president biden, your response. my response is the senator had several plans so far and any time someone tells you you re going to get something good in ten years, you should wonder why it takes ten years. if you notice, there is no talk that the plan in ten years will
health care. senator harris, this week you released a new health care plan which would preserve private insurance and take ten years to phase in. vice president biden s campaign calls your plan quote a habit every which way approach, and says it s just part of a confusing pattern of equivocating about your health care stance. what do you say to that? they are probably confused because they have not read it but the reality is i have been spending time in this campaign listening to american families, listening to experts, listening to health care providers, and what i came away with is a very clear understanding that i needed to create a plan that was responsive to the needs of the american people, responsive to their needs of understanding that insurance companies have been jacking up the prices for far too long, that american families have to be held down by deductibles and co-pays and premiums that can cause them bankruptcy. i listened to the american
secretary castro. i know this is personal for all americans. i grew up with a grandmother with diabetes and watched her condition get worse and worse. that whole time she had medicare. i want to strengthen it for those on it and expand it for anybody who wants it. i believe if somebody has a private health insurance plan that is strong that they want to hold on to, they should be able to do that. i don t believe the profit model should ever determine in our great nation whether somebody gets health care or not. thank you, secretary castro. senator harris, senator bennett suggested you support banning employer-based health insurance. is that true? first of all, with all due respect to my friend michael bennett, my plan does not offer anything that is illegal. what it does is it separates the employer from health care meaning that where you work will not be the kind of health care you get will not be a function of where you work. i have met so many americans who stick to a job th