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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17 Home for the 
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lizard
19 Rooftop spinner
20 Court address
22 FDR job-creating 
program
23 -
25 -
27 Catchers with 
pots
28 Like the Avengers
31 Twice DVI
32 Z preceder
33 Pancake at a 
seder
36 Longtime 
Sweethearts 
maker
40 Instructions for 
fire safety ... or 
for completing 
four puzzle 
answers
43 Marx forte
44 Kim and 
Kourtney’s sister
45 Bundle of cash
46 Toy with a tail
48 “Spill it”
50 Bassett of 
“American Horror 
Story”
53 Percussion piece
55 Shotgun type
56 Zing
57 -
61 Where Georgia is
62 -
65 Mineral resource
66 Move
67 Cocktail 
garnishes
68 A long time 
follower?
69 Scoundrel
70 “Aida” setting
71 Dawn 
phenomenon

DOWN
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2 Scoop

3 Curds in cubes
4 “Oy!”
5 High-capacity 
vehicle?
6 Record time?
7 Like noisy fans
8 Vicious on 
stage
9 High-and-mighty
10 Wise words
11 Regal home
12 Warning signs
15 Book form that 
replaced the 
scroll
21 Pi follower
24 Team in a 
seasonal verse
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contraption
28 Diner dish
29 Words to a 
backstabber
30 Part of a Clue 
accusation
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America” 
creation
34 Casino gratuity
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38 Quahog or 
geoduck

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faire word
41 Sphere used 
to capture a 
Pikachu, say
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portmanteau
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amount
51 Long time 
follower?

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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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