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July, when medicare went into effect, those hospitals had dug deep and found it within themselves, to start complying with the civil rights act, after all. around the 50th anniversary of medicare, in 2015. there was some renewed attention to that quiet but definitive way president chance in and his health secretary head desegregate it american hospitals, basically overnight. there are headlines like this one in the washington post. the massive rural medicare played in racial integration. in this one in u.s.. news desegregation, the hidden legacy of medicare. i only point out that news coverage...

The american system at its best. democrats, republicans, the house, the senate. the white house, business labor, all cooperating on a common goal. the saving of lives. the avoiding of injuries. making the places of work for 55 million americans, safer, and more pleasant places. this is certainly a great goal. >> president biden today is in fact, putting the muscle of the federal government and his authority as president, behinds trying to make our national offense against covid, more intense. more thorough. more rational. less porous. less helter-skelter, and regionally divided. yes, he is usi...

Gave the country until july 1966 before medicare would actually go into effect. so he basically gave the country, gave his administration a year to get it rolled out, right? we've got a year. ready, steady, go. funny thing, though -- more than halfway through that yearlong wind-up, more than halfway through that yearlong on-ramp that lbj had given himself to get implemented, nine months into that year that he had given the administration and the country to prepare for it, the johnson administration suddenly realized what that johnson signed into law in 1965, the medicare bill, and what johnson...

Buttigieg, this poll came. was in the field right after last week's debate and he does seem to be overperforming in iowa more than his national polls, which puts him in a position to be able, if somebody's not elizabeth warren or joe biden able to win the iowa caucuses, pete buttigieg might make a name for himself. >> it's so easy when you get these bumps. the question is can he sustain it? in the meantime, ali, interesting new piece about how the cost of implementing medicare for all might be elizabeth warren's greatest weakness and that it was exposed at last week's debate. here's part of wh...

We don't know the specifics yet behind how he plans to pay for this. this is another example of bernie sanders taking on the establishment and what he would argue would be bailing out the average american. this would go a long way toward helping people who found themselves in difficult positions because of a medical problem. they're hoping that this along with implementing medicare for all will make the situation much easier for americans across the board. >> before you go, i know he's not answering the question about how with the campaign ads and how they're going to pay for it. but $81 milli...