{"id":202872,"date":"2020-02-15T01:25:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/aoc-lowers-expectations-on-medicare-for-all-admitting-sanders-cant-wave-a-magic-wand-to-pass-it\/"},"modified":"2020-02-15T01:25:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:25:32","slug":"aoc-lowers-expectations-on-medicare-for-all-admitting-sanders-cant-wave-a-magic-wand-to-pass-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/aoc-lowers-expectations-on-medicare-for-all-admitting-sanders-cant-wave-a-magic-wand-to-pass-it\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC lowers expectations on Medicare for All, admitting Sanders &#8216;can&#8217;t wave a magic wand&#8217; to pass it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-img-container\" style=\"padding-bottom:67%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img has-preview\" alt=\"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a campaign stop for Sen. Bernie Sanders on Jan. 26 in Perry, Iowa. (Andrew Harnik\/AP)\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/Kfy54ykAf04RR2fmLLq6Mg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTQ3MA--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/quC49BOjMek1od_HlJUtZQ--~B\/aD0zNjQ4O3c9NTQ3MjtzbT0xO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u\/https:\/\/media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2020-02\/73ff3ce0-4f70-11ea-b957-97267b663f15\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a campaign stop for Sen. Bernie Sanders on Jan. 26 in Perry, Iowa. (Andrew Harnik\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that if Sen. Bernie Sanders were elected president, he still might not be able to get Medicare for All, his signature health plan, passed in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA president can\u2019t wave a magic wand and pass any legislation they want,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told HuffPost this week.<\/p>\n<p>While Ocasio-Cortez rarely tempers expectations when championing ideas like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal to fight climate change she helped author, she went on to suggest that under a President Sanders, a \u201ccompromise\u201d might emerge on health care, even though she still considers Sanders\u2019s bill the gold standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worst-case scenario? We compromise deeply and we end up getting a public option. Is that a nightmare? I don\u2019t think so,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That dose of political realism was notable on an issue that has divided the Democratic primary. When Sen. Elizabeth Warren rose to the top of the Democratic field last fall, her rivals zeroed in on her inability to say whether a government-run health plan estimated to cost $30 trillion would result in higher taxes for the middle class.<\/p>\n<p>After Warren laid out a modified proposal for her health care plan that she said would cost $20 trillion, former Vice President Joe Biden accused her of \u201cmaking it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, nobody thinks it\u2019s $20 trillion,\u201d Biden told PBS last year, adding, \u201cI think it is going to be very difficult to even get a Democratic Congress to vote for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warren\u2019s revised plan is similar to what Ocasio-Cortez proposed as a fallback goal of enacting a public option as a first step to full Medicare for All.<\/p>\n<p>After Warren offered that concession, and as her standing in the race fell, she was supplanted by Sanders as the face of Medicare for All, and the target of critics who see it as unrealistic.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader\" style=\"padding-bottom:67%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign event in Durham, N.C., on Friday. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/vE_aihyqt4iED_coe9jgOw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTQ3MA--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/eTmdaIIiSagBJJ6k0DwmiA--~B\/aD0zNjQ4O3c9NTQ3MjtzbT0xO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u\/https:\/\/media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2020-02\/95ace950-4f70-11ea-bf77-38492cc7deb9\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign event in Durham, N.C., on Friday. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/vE_aihyqt4iED_coe9jgOw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTQ3MA--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/eTmdaIIiSagBJJ6k0DwmiA--~B\/aD0zNjQ4O3c9NTQ3MjtzbT0xO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u\/https:\/\/media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2020-02\/95ace950-4f70-11ea-bf77-38492cc7deb9\" class=\"caas-img\"\/><\/noscript><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign event in Durham, N.C., on Friday. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During January\u2019s Democratic presidential debate in Iowa, Sen. Amy Klobuchar also threw cold water on the likelihood of Sanders\u2019s plan becoming law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver two-thirds of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate are not on the bill that [Sanders] and Sen. Warren are on,\u201d Klobuchar said. \u201cYou have numerous governors that are Democratic that don\u2019t support this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp caas-button collapse-button\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-ylk=\"g:87ec7cd3-d591-3a6b-8d5c-3b5d01243d75;elm:readmore;slk:Story continues\">Story continues<\/button><\/p>\n<p>Citing data showing that many Americans like their private health care plans, Pete Buttigieg has also offered an alternative to Medicare for All.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the best approach is to make this Medicare option available to everybody, but not command everybody to adopt it, especially I\u2019m thinking of folks like the culinary workers here in Nevada,\u201d Buttigieg said in an interview with the Nevada Independent. \u201cThere are a lot of labor union members who have negotiated very good health plans that are part of their compensation, and I don\u2019t think they want to be forced into a plan they don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg\u2019s plan, which he calls Medicare for All Who Want It, foresees a future in which a government-run health system outcompetes private insurance. In the meantime, however, it backs away from forcing Americans and Congress to choose between a new way of delivering care and the current model.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s comments this week were not lost on some of the Democrats who fought to get Obamacare passed into law.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet-wrapper\">\n<blockquote placeholder=\"\" data-theme=\"light\" class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>The people who attacked Warren for her not taking the maximalist position on M4A owe her an apology. <\/p>\n<p>Because apparently intermediary steps are now ok. https:\/\/t.co\/EL0V5SdQTV<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neeratanden\/status\/1228075062542110722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:February 13, 2020\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">February 13, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>That left Sanders\u2019s most high-profile surrogate to try <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1228109199915307009\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:to clarify\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">to clarify<\/a> her views on how much moderation was too much on the subject of health care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFYI, I speak for myself as a member of Congress- if I were speaking on behalf of a campaign, I\u2019d say so!\u201d Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response to Tanden. \u201c2nd I think there\u2019s a legitimate convo btwn starting with what you want &amp; starting w\/ compromise. I believe a public option is worse than M4A, so we should fight for M4A 1st.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>_____<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Yahoo News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/aoc-lowers-expectations-on-medicare-for-all-admitting-sanders-cant-wave-a-magic-wand-to-pass-it-212943695.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a campaign stop for Sen. Bernie Sanders on Jan. 26 in Perry, Iowa. (Andrew Harnik\/AP) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that if Sen. Bernie Sanders were elected president, he still might not be able to get Medicare for All, his signature health plan, passed in Congress. \u201cA president can\u2019t wave &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}