Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren Get Heated at Dem Debate on Medicare for All | NowThis

'Your signature, Senator, is to have a plan for everything. Except this.' — Watch Pete Buttigieg call out Elizabeth Warren for her approach to health care.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren had a heated exchange on stage during the fourth Democratic debate in Ohio. The two 2020 candidates were discussing health care in America. Elizabeth Warren supports a Medicare for All plan, while Pete Buttigieg disagrees with some of Warren's approaches to achieve universal health care.

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[joshuamondebelen]

I like how professional they are when they talk about their concerns. They attack the argument and its technicalities not the person who wrote them. Not too shabby for Democrats.

[Jone]

Healthcare is not a divisive issue, everyone wants low-cost high-quality healthcare. The only opponents are big pharma and the AMA

[lyndakelly]

Oh Pete. In Canada we all have healthcare that doesn't cost us a small fortune. I have been a successful accountant for over 45 years. I have not met one Canadian who has gone bankrupt because they or a family member got sick but I've met dozens of Americans who have. It's a big fallacy that you don't get to pick a doctor too. What you guys don't get is that your taxes may go up slightly but your medical insurance costs will drop by the thousands. Mathematically you will be ahead. Why do you consistently vote against your best interests? BS scare tactics and pure ignorance, that's why. My cousins in Idaho were paying $800 month in premiums and when she broke her leg, still had over $23, 000 co-pays/deductibles. Crazy. My husband broke his wrist....medical cost $0 other than our monthly medical premiums of $150 for a family of two or more. At the present time they are $75 and in January 2020, our province is reducing the premiums to zero.

[ricosrealm]

Warren has yet to come out with an official plan for M4A and is beating around the bush about how it will be funded. Bernie has a more comprehensive plan on this.

[mikhaelbartocci]

"Choice". What I want is someone to eliminate these horrible private insurance companies. I don't want to
choose between a pack of hyenas and a pack of wolves. I want them gone.

[Yanaschaf]

Neither of those two are for M4A single payer. Bernie is the only one.

[Goku_Just_Sayin]

That’s mild compared to Biden attacking her, and trying to take credit for her CFBP accomplishment

[unikornalien]

Americans have no idea how way less stressful life is with medicare for all. This guy is trying to scare you.

[tilt]

Maybe she could pay for it the same way Canada and Europe do. The companies that want to sweeten the pot for their employees can pitch in a free gym membership.

[Comrade_mommy]

The reason “Medicare for some” wouldn’t work is bc the private insurance companies would be able to create super cheap plans that would only be available for young healthy ppl. The way insurance works is by spreading out the costs. If only sick and the elderly are getting Medicare for all then it will burden the govt with high costs resulting in higher taxes which could undermine its existence. The young healthy ppl will be paying cheap fees and happy till they get sick and realize nothing is covered. They’ll then enter the Medicare for all pool. Even the study done by a Koch funded think tank showed a single payer system would cost $2 trillion less then what we have now. Plus the Medicare for all plan that Bernie wrote isn’t your grandmas medicare. It’s got dental, vision, and covers hearing aids. My mom’s been suffering from worsening hearing loss for awhile now. (Probably bc she spent 20 years on Oxy Contin. She was in that first pool of ppl with chronic pain to be put on it. And while it initially changed her life for the better, going from suicidal from pain to able to live work again, opiate tolerance and hearing loss were the downside). Hearing aids are fcking expensive af. You have to be under the poverty level to get some help and other then that there’s charity, being a beta tester for hearing aid companies, if your lucky enough to get picked. Before even getting to the point you have to worry about paying for a hearing aid there’s the apt with the audiologist. And having dental insurance would be amazing. One of the biggest signs of whether your poor or not is your teeth. Pete Buttigieg is using a right wing talking point to undermine a system that is beloved in other first world countries. Can’t stand the sanctimonious bullish¡tting pr¡ck.

[michaelsalaferreris]

Healthcare is a human right. Medicare for all! Don't settle for any less!

[xangee]

Commenting from Australia: Medicare for all is absolutely the best system.

[leifharmsen]

It doesn't work when the richest Americans can pull their support from public health insurance.

Also, private insurance runs out and you pay according to how sick you are. Public insurance is always better, even for the rich. You'd have to be a billionaire for private insurance to be better, but by then you don't need insurance you can just pay.

I love Pete but he's aiming too low. The half measure is the problem. Half private half public divides the nation horribly. Trump supporters need proper public health insurance as much as anyone; nobody should be left behind, disgruntled, angry and both invested in and ripped off by the cynical private health insurance system.

[InHerLittleWay]

“I’m Elizabeth Warren and I have a plan for the things you want to hear.”

[khadarabdullahi]

Wy does America, the world's strongest and most powerful country struggle with health care??

"Kicking people out of their healthcare plan"
Those people would go to another healthcare program called Medicare.

[elmeraguero]

You have to understand, the person that is going to defeat Trump in November will have to win over Republican voters. Buttigieg understands this, and he is trying to work a middle ground to unite the parties. I love Bernie, I love the healthcare for all proposal, but we need to lay out stepping stones towards it. Remember, we still have an electoral college, and if candidates don't gather enough support from republican voters, Trump will be elected another 4 years.

[ongoinglife]

Pete, You are lying for Corporations or Misinformed.
The Reality is that Majority of Americans HATE their Expensive Private Insurance which lacks Coverage.

[blartuc]

why doesn't anyone bring up the fact that as long as we have insurance companies, working as a for profit middle man, instead of lumping everyone into 1, non profit pool which would also eliminate all the red tape for doctors and hospitals, costs won't go down. Insurance companies are making millions, that money should go to healthcare for everyone.

[yateswebb]

a properly subsidized public option presents competition against the private companies. let 'em duke it out. we'd win.


I agree 100% with Pete here.