- 24 Feb 2020 10:25
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Bernie Sanders may now be the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Dylan Scott in Vox.com, but anxious moderates are deeply worried that his signature policy, “Medicare for all,” is “a political albatross.” Last week the powerful Culinary Workers Union of Nevada distributed flyers urging its 60,000 members to oppose Medicare for all when participating in the Feb. 22 caucus, because it would terminate the generous, employer-provided health care plan they’d won through labor negotiations. The Culinary Workers’ opposition hints at a bigger problem for Sanders’ campaign. While Medicare for all polls well (56 percent) in the abstract, support plummets to 37 percent when voters are told it means the end of the private insurance on which 180 million Americans currently depend. Some of Sanders’ supporters seem to recognize the danger, said Joseph Zeballos-Roig in BusinessInsider .com. His “key surrogate,” New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez, said that people shouldn’t let Medicare for all keep them from supporting Sanders, because Congress won’t pass such a sweeping reform anyway. By putting single-payer on the table, she said, Sanders can get “a public option”—that is, Medicare for those who want it—as a compromise.....
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