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Profits and they pay their ceos millions of dollars. so god bless them if they want to compete. i dont think they will. and thats how you ultimately get more people to choose medicare. and once you get a good amount of buy-in, your step to universal coverage, single-payer is very short. ultimately you want to make it an earned benefit like you have with social security. >> last night you went after vice president bidens record bringing up an op-ed from 1981 that he wrote. in it he said women wor...

In the ground saying we are going to talk about climate change through the lens of innovation and jobs, that will bring a whole lot of heck of a lot of folks in the midwest. >> as opposed to were going to die in 12 years which is what ive heard twice? [ laughter ] >> and, yeah, thats not helpful. >> that is now being talked about is incrementalist was not seen as incrementalist at the time. with things like the green new deal and single-payer, that those things are now being talked about. >> but...

About health care. he sain, look, obamacare is gre. one of the things that she tweeted is single-payer is actually medicare for all. a lot of conservatives say, yes. thank you. thats what we have been trying to explain to all along. i dont know if biden will be able to thread the needle. biden doesnt seem like hes got it all they are he really faltered in the debate and isnt doing that well. but democrats seem to like him. lets see how he does this week. but right now, i think a really interesti...

Party the sides of one? >> bill: what did you think of senator elizabeth warren when she took that on? why are you on the stage if youre not going to think big, bold ideas? >> this is the big bold idea. to actually get to universal health care and make it work and create an avenue by which many of us up there were proposing a public auction but over time if it succeeded, people could migrate into it, you end up with some version of the single-payer or at least of broad variety of competitive sou...

Rooich rooic rivals to make the same pledge. sanders calling on all candidates to refuse any money from them. >> hes delivering a speech this afternoon on health care policy. obviously this is huge in this race. ryan nobles is following all of it. >> first of all, this is not a surprise that bernie sanders is coming out with this challenge to his democratic rivals this week. it comes just a couple days after former vice president joe biden unveiled his health care policy plan and a day after kam...

Realizing his tweets dont get the same amount of attention. he wants to blame social media. its probably because people are just worn out by him. >> thats the market. >> let me put up the big one here on issues which we asked about single-payer health care. overall, was a split that was fairly even. 44% in favor of it, 49% against it. >> but when you look inside the numbers and you see these splits, 72% of democrats want it, but only 36% of independents and only 14 of republicans. ruth marcus, t...

Of concerns about these and the fact there is this unrealistic, what is funny about it back a few years ago many of these would be considered radical policies. democrats definitely dont want to stagnate but this is not the direction they want to be going to create a positive vision for the future of this country. >> republicans found $1.6 trillion to give way to corporate interests and the richest 1% in this country we can certainly find some money to shore up medicare and medicaid. >> if you lo...

Thats child abuse. thats a crime. if the government does it, that doesnt make it less of a crime. these are state-sponsored crimes. >> and as on the first debate night, the candidates were divided on whether to allow private health insurance. >> no deductibles, no out-of-pocket expenses. they will pay more in taxes but less in health care for what they get. >> the plan that senator sanders and i support in medicare for all, is a single-payer. >> everybody who says medicare for all. every person ...

Get there. jillian: that moment griff was referencing is on the cover of the new york post. a moment where the candidates were asked if they were in favor of healthcare for illegal immigrants. they all did. rob: every single one on the stage. senior advisor, this is his big plan, medicare for all for illegals as well, single-payer, a bold strategy and i ask what did you think of every single person raising their hand for illegal immigrant healthcare? >> it is a disgrace in america we have 11 mil...

>> if we dont clearly define the we are not socialists the republicans will come at us and call us socialists. healthcare is a right and not a privilege but you cant expect to illuminate private insurance for 100 million people. >> the universal healthcare is a right, not a privilege, single-payer. >> the quickest fastest way to do is build on obamacare. im against any democrat who opposes it. >> reporter: the moment on healthcare that stood out was when the moderator asked them to raise her hea...