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Expect More Health Industry Spin At Thursday’s Democratic Debate | Tarbell

Major health insurance, hospital, and pharmaceutical trade organizations that oppose Medicare for All have reported spending $45 million on lobbying so far this year. They’ve also pushed misleading attack lines against efforts to enact a universal public health care system that are likely to be echoed in the Thursday night debate of 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls.

“When you talk about eliminating private health insurance, support flips, you get 58 percent opposed,” ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos told Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, in a June interview. “It gets even worse when you tell Americans they’re going to have to pay more taxes, which you have conceded.” He concluded: “It appears you’re pushing something people say they don’t want.”

Stephanopolous was referring to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll that tested arguments made by supporters and opponents of Medicare for All, but he only presented the polling for points made by opponents. It’s true that only 37 percent of people said they’d favor Medicare for All if it eliminated private health insurance or required them to pay more taxes – but 67 percent of people polled in the same survey said they’d support Medicare for All if it eliminated all health insurance premiums and reduced out-of-pocket costs.
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:whoo: My gawd tomorrow Kamala might kamikaze attack. :merchant: Wealthy donors basically sold her hope eight months ago about how she was the chosen one, now they're about to throw her to the wolves :wow:

Big money donors consider staying away from Kamala Harris if she fails to perform at the next debate

  • Some of Kamala Harris’ top donors are privately acknowledging that if she fails to compete in the next debate, many wealthy donors are likely to stay away from her campaign.
  • In discussions with donors and those close to lead financiers, there is a growing consensus that the California lawmaker needs to have a strong outing against the nine other contenders if she wants to maintain an alliance with many big money donors that have donated to multiple campaigns, including hers.
  • A person close to one of Harris’s bundlers was even more blunt when asked what donors are looking for from Harris. “Something, anything attention grabbing,” this person said, adding donors will “stay away” if she doesn’t show up.
  • Regardless of what happens in Houston, Harris is planning to start a two week fundraising tour that will include stops in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles.
 
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Skyfall said:
:whoo: My gawd tomorrow Kamala might kamikaze attack. :merchant: Wealthy donors basically sold her hope eight months ago about how she was the chosen one, now they're about to throw her to the wolves :wow:

Big money donors consider staying away from Kamala Harris if she fails to perform at the next debate

  • Some of Kamala Harris’ top donors are privately acknowledging that if she fails to compete in the next debate, many wealthy donors are likely to stay away from her campaign.
  • In discussions with donors and those close to lead financiers, there is a growing consensus that the California lawmaker needs to have a strong outing against the nine other contenders if she wants to maintain an alliance with many big money donors that have donated to multiple campaigns, including hers.
  • A person close to one of Harris’s bundlers was even more blunt when asked what donors are looking for from Harris. “Something, anything attention grabbing,” this person said, adding donors will “stay away” if she doesn’t show up.
  • Regardless of what happens in Houston, Harris is planning to start a two week fundraising tour that will include stops in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles.
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She's not a good debater when she has other people challenging her. If Biden was in his prime and not the bumbling old fart that he is right now, he could destroy her.

I'm saying this as somebody who dislikes both Biden and Harris.
 
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