NYT: Elizabeth Warren Vows to Expand Health Coverage in First 100 Days

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(A more positive take on Senator Warren's 'retreat'. Q: Why does the NYT call a U.S. Senator Ms. Warren?)

Elizabeth Warren Vows to Expand Health Coverage in First 100 Days

Ms. Warren laid out a blueprint to pass major health legislation at the start of her presidency. But she would wait as long as three years to seek passage of a full-scale “Medicare for all” plan.

WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren vowed on Friday to pass major health care legislation in her first 100 days as president, unveiling a new, detailed plan to significantly expand public health insurance coverage as a first step, and promising to pass a “Medicare for all” system by the end of her third year in office that would cover all Americans.

The initial bill she would seek to pass if elected would be a step short of the broader Medicare for all plan she has championed. But it would substantially expand the reach and generosity of public health insurance, creating a government plan that would offer free coverage to all American children and people earning less than double the federal poverty rate, or about $50,000 for a family of four, and that could be purchased by other Americans who want it.

Ms. Warren has long endorsed a Medicare for all bill sponsored by one of her rivals for the Democratic nomination, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. But until now, she has not specified how quickly she would move to enact a health care plan. Friday’s proposal amounts to a detailed road map for eventually establishing Medicare for all, a single government-run health insurance program under which private coverage would be eliminated.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-medicare-for-all-100-days.html

[BlueMTexpat]

1. Just wait ...

three ... two ... one

Whatever Elizabeth says or does is sniped at here, whether it makes sense or not. She's damned if she does and damned if she doesn't.

To me, it is much too reminiscent of what was done to HRC in 2016 ... by so-called Dems. And I hate it even more when I see it now because it shows that some here have learned absolutely nothing since.

[crazytown]

2. I'm optimistic

but I'm tired of the stick, my candidate can do not wrong (and I'll defend that to the back teeth), your is going wrong all over the place and cannot recover. The polls say Biden never recovered from his June debate performance, The Nov debate is coming up, we will see how that goes. Elizabeth is an accomplished counter puncher.

[BlueMTexpat]

3. That she is indeed!

[BeyondGeography]

4. With this move she cleared the decks

reinforced her position in the race and freed herself up to focus on her core message of economic fairness which elevated her in the first place. So of course she’s being ripped by the usual people.

[George II]

5. Anyone remember that old game show decades ago, "Name That Tune"?

[crazytown]

6. I preferred 'What's my line'

Though Paul Lynde in Hollywood Squares was hard to beat.

[George II]

7. .