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That's the champion of medicare for all. today she asked if she had spoken with him, and warren said, she called but hasn't gotten a call back yet. >> dana: it's a new number. now to our political panel, in terms of public opinion on it, in terms of sticker shock have those numbers changed at all in terms of people wanting to replace entire system with medicare for all? >> the idea that once people are told that your private health care insurance is going to be in abolished, and that everybody is going to get tossed into the same one size fits all government run program, it likely leads to lin...

Which would be a major expansion of government health care and probably a weigh station to single payer. paul: it's a question of doing it in stages to get to a government run program or incrementally which is what biden wants or do it in one giant leap, that's the difference? >> right. i mean, bernie's plan is a four year transition which would be -- there's no precedent for attempting a massive government expansion on that level in four years. paul: that public option that biden supports, that didn't pass in 2010. obama tried to get it through. it couldn't even pass a democratic congress. >>...

Proposing? >> i think that they're very similar. in a single payer system everyone would be automatically enrolled in a government-run health care program like medicare. >> it would cover doctors visitors, hospitalizations, but also hearing there would be some copays for brand name prescription drugs. but a litmus test is starting to take shape. the question is will a single-payer system also eliminate private insurance was we know it >> who here would abolish their insurance for a government run program? >> reporter: sanders and harris along with new york city mayor bill de blasio raised thei...

Yes. 59% say no. and why is that important? well, you remember on the debate stage when asked should undocumented immigrants get health coverage provided from the government, everyone raised their hand, so david chalion, the polls say the candidates want when americans don't want. >> you're playing primary politics instead of general election politics. that poll number if you look at it by democrats, it's opposite, 6 in 10 democrats believe that undocumented immigrants should indeed have health insurance from a government run program if there was one. they are raising their hand because they u...

Medicare for all. while it is a government run program, it is not an actual single payer system. they allow private companies to manage care which means the government is not the only one paying claims, they also have premiums that most seniors pay through their social security checks. most seniors that can afford to do so buy supplemental insurance coverage. under a singer payer system like the one that i talk a lot about in my home country ofcap d-- canada, it would be replaced by a government run insurance program. all u.s. residents would be