r/politics • u/Hootinger • 16d ago

No Paywall Hakeem Jeffries says Medicare for all is not legislation he currently supports

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/hakeem-jeffries-says-medicare-for-all-is-not-legislation-he-currently-supports-268371525570
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u/GPointeMountaineer 16d ago

We must get Talerico and El Sayed to the senate. Its near urgent for movement towards helping the masses instead of the few. If both make it , 2028 will be the year of the progressive

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u/EmberOnMain 16d ago

Talarico doesn’t support M4A either.

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u/Hirsute_of_Happiness 15d ago

Allow every American — regardless of their age — to join Medicare: Provide an affordable not-for-profit health care option for every American, while also bringing down costs for those who don’t participate by increasing competition with private insurance.

This sure sounds like M4A, unless we're defining M4A as also necessarily eliminating private insurance

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u/EmberOnMain 15d ago

It’s a public option. M4A is single payer.

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u/Hirsute_of_Happiness 15d ago

Thank you.

Also god Dems have done such a shit job marketing this. M4A obviously implies making Medicare available for all. Except that's not what it means. Leaving people pissed to hear folks like Talarico aren't for M4A, even though he's for a public option which a lot of folks on the left do want.

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u/EmberOnMain 15d ago

A public option would be better than what we have now, but it would still have copays and premiums, so most folks on the left want single payer.

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u/Vegetable-Error-2068 16d ago

Exactly. Talarico's just another fucking centrist that's trying to appeal to Republicans through religion.

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u/Donny-Moscow Arizona 15d ago

Great, let’s all vote for Ken Paxton. Maybe he supports M4A.