Let's talk Liz Warren, shall we? As the resident Libstan on the board I feel like this health care thing should be addressed. When her candidacy started essentially two years ago, her health care plan was a strength, it was what made her essentially the chosen one. That health care plan was the crown jewel of her progressive resume. WAS.
She needs to drop the plan, it's become an anchor. It's obvious that middle class taxes will go up, but she can't say that because it will not only torpedo her campaign, but the Republicans will use that sound bite to murder whomever the candidate is in the general, because you can't run as a Democrat without health care reform. It's sad that Americans are too stupid to understand that even though their taxes will go up, their bottom line will be helped. Between premiums and copays, I will be paying over $5000 in health care personally this year, this counts no one else in my family. My taxes aren't going up $5000, that's rough ridin' absurd.
It's also sad that the other democrats, looking at Pete and Klo here, don't understand that if Warren said she's raising middle class taxes for a health care plan, it will be used against every single health care reform plan any of them puts out.
Finally, I'll give Pete credit for having a plan that he can state but he's a lunatic if he doesn't think it's also Medicaid for all. If you're unfamiliar his plan is to have a public option, but will allow citizens to keep their plan if they have one. I just listened to a post debate with him and he said that the public option would be better than private plans but his plan works because people will have the option to keep what they like from their private plan. WHO IN GOD'S NAME WOULD KEEP A PRIVATE PLAN IF THERE IS A PUBLIC PLAN THAT'S BETTER AND FREE??? What the hell am I missing here? Why does Pete and Joe think that people actually enjoy paying for crap they can get for?
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