The most heavily discussed
topics on Wednesday night were
health
care,
immigration
and
criminal justice, while climate
change and foreign policy, while
discussed, were among topics
receiving less airtime.
Many of the candidates now
support Medicare-for-all, insofar
as it means creating a public option
for health insurance into which any
citizen can buy. One of the main
divides that has opened within the
healthcare debate, however, has
been whether to keep an option for
private, employer-provided health
insurance, which only Warren and
Sanders have opposed.
Unlike many others, Biden does
not support Medicare-for-all, and
on Wednesday night criticized
Harris’s plan for its high cost.
Harris, by contrast, criticized
Biden’s plan for failing to cover
every citizen.
Yang argued Democrats had
been discussing Medicare-for-all in
the wrong ways, pointing out that it
took the burden off of businesses to
provide healthcare for employees.
“As
someone
who’s
run
a
business, I can tell you flat out our
current health care system makes
it harder to hire, it makes it harder
to treat people well and give them
benefits and treat them as full-
time employees, it makes it harder
to switch jobs, as Senator Harris
just said, and it’s certainly a lot
harder to start a business,” Yang
said. “If we say, look, we’re going
to get health care off the backs
of businesses and families, then
watch American entrepreneurship
recover and bloom.”
On the issue of immigration in
particular, candidates took the
opportunity to go after Biden,
criticizing him for his part in the
record number of deportations
which occurred under the Obama
Administration.
Castro, who put forward his plan
to decriminalize border crossings
and invest millions of dollars
in Honduras, El Salvador and
Guatemala as part of a “21st Century
Marshall Plan,” acknowledged his
role in the Obama administration
by telling Biden, “one of us has
learned the lessons of the past and
one of us hasn’t.”
At one point as Biden was
discussing
immigration,
he
was interrupted by protesters
criticizing his record in the Obama
Administration, chanting “Three
million deportations!” Biden said
unauthorized
border
crossings
should continue to be treated as a
crime and that “people should have
to get in line.”
“And by the way, anybody that
crosses the stage with a PhD, you
should get a green card for seven
years,” Biden said. “We should keep
them here.”
Booker
contradicted
Biden,
connecting his comment to one
made by President Trump in which
he said he wants fewer immigrants
from “shithole countries.”
“That’s
playing
into
what
the Republicans want, to pit
some immigrants against other
immigrants.
Some
are
from
‘shithole’ countries and some are
from ‘worthy’ countries,” Booker
said. “We need to reform this whole
immigration system and begin to
be the country that says everyone
has worth and dignity and this
should be a country that honors for
everyone.”
Of all the candidates, Inslee
discussed climate change the
most, and was the only one to
name it as a priority. He pointed
out that while it was everyone’s
problem, it was Democrats’ duty
to deliver justice to poor and
minority communities like those
in southwest Detroit, who suffer
from disproportionate rates of
asthma and lung disease due to
air pollution.
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Delaney, Bullock and Ryan
all supported health care plans
offering both private and public
options, agreeing it wouldn’t be
worthwhile to take away private
health care from those who like it.
“At the end of the day, I’m not
going to support any plan that
rips away quality health care from
individuals,” Bullock said. “This is
an example of wish list economics.
It used to be just Republicans who
wanted to repeal and replace. Now
many Democrats do, as well.”
Buttigieg and O’Rourke shared
similar policies. They supported
a plan with several insurance
options as well as Medicare for
those who need it.
“We don’t have to stand up
here speculating about whether
the public option will be better or
a Medicare for All environment
will be better than the corporate
options,”
Buttigieg
said.
“We
can put it to the test. That’s the
concept of my Medicare for All
Who Want It proposal. That way,
if people like me are right that the
public alternative is going to be
not only more comprehensive, but
more affordable than any of the
corporate options around there.
we’ll see Americans walk away
from the corporate options into
that Medicare option, and it will
become Medicare for All without
us having to kick anybody off their
insurance.”
O’Rourke
also
shared
his
disapproval of increasing taxes for
the middle class to support health
care reform.
“The middle class will not pay
more in taxes in order to ensure
that every American is guaranteed
world-class health care,” O’Rourke
said. “I think we’re being offered a
false choice.”
Williamson
said
she
understands the argument behind
maintaining
privatized
health
care. This statement prompted
a debate between Warren and
Sanders — both strong supporters
of Medicare for all plans — and the
other candidates on stage.
Warren
said
pushing
the
idea of rising taxes was a tactic
Republicans have used in the
past to paint the plan in a
negative light.
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