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30 Issues: Medicare For All
Defending Obamacare has become a uniting policy among Democrats running in the November midterms. United States Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders argues that, if Democrats take the House and Senate, Medicare for All is the right plan.
.@SenSanders says his opponents always claim that he wants to raise your taxes but they seem to forget, he says, “Bernie Sanders wants to do away with all of the private health insurance premiums that you are paying, do away with the deductibles and copayments you are paying.”
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) October 18, 2018