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Re: FW: CLIP | Think Progress: Hillary Clinton Makes Dishonest Attack On Bernie Sanders' Health Care Plan
Judd is working on it. Maybe he should just do all headlines.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:42 PM Neera Tanden <ntanden@gmail.com> wrote:
> I will. They are crazy leftists down there.
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:30 PM John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Maybe we can work on the headlines.
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>> From: *Jeremy Massey* <jmassey@hillaryclinton.com>
>> Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:22 PM
>> Subject: CLIP | Think Progress: Hillary Clinton Makes Dishonest Attack On
>> Bernie Sanders’ Health Care Plan
>> To: Research <research@hillaryclinton.com>
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>> http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/01/14/3739427/democratic-candidates-single-payer/
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>> Hillary Clinton Makes Dishonest Attack On Bernie Sanders’ Health Care Plan
>>
>> BY *TARA CULP-RESSLER* <http://thinkprogress.org/?person=tculp-ressler>
>> <https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=Tara_CR> JAN 14, 2016 12:03
>> PM
>>
>> As the race tightens
>> <http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-01-12/with-democratic-race-tightening-clinton-attacks-sanders> between
>> the two leading Democratic presidential candidates, they’re engaged in a
>> fierce policy battle over a key progressive issue: access to health care.
>>
>> The Hillary Clinton campaign is amping up its attacks on fellow
>> presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ health care plan, saying it’s a “risky
>> deal
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/11/clinton-in-iowa-attacks-sanders-health-care-plan-as-a-risky-deal/>”
>> that could return the country to an era when “millions and millions and
>> millions of people
>> <http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/pat-garofalo/articles/2016-01-13/hillary-clintons-bizarre-attack-on-bernie-sanders-health-care-plan>”
>> did not have access to insurance. The Sanders campaign, meanwhile, is
>> working to highlight the apparent hypocrisy here — pointing out that
>> Clinton has a history of supporting universal health care
>> <https://www.facebook.com/berniesanders/photos/a.324119347643076.89553.124955570892789/961117337276604/?type=3&theater>,
>> and once said that Democrats attacking each other’s health care plans “undermined
>> core Democratic values
>> <https://www.facebook.com/berniesanders/videos/961157863939218/>.”
>>
>> Here’s what you need to know about the policy dispute:
>> Sanders wants health care for all, but his plan is thin on details.
>>
>> Sanders has long advocated what’s known as a “single-payer system
>> <http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1f0ee3946fa842ac9259b9f24d6a4dd6/what-know-about-berniecare-sanders-health-overhaul>,”
>> in which one government program would offer insurance to Americans without
>> charging the premiums, deductibles, or co-pays that currently finance the
>> private insurance sector.
>>
>> This policy is sometimes referred to as “Medicare for all” because it
>> would, in many ways, extend the current system that’s in place for Medicare
>> beneficiaries to everyone else in the country. The general idea behind this
>> model is that the government would raise health care taxes to pay for the
>> cost of extending insurance to everyone.
>>
>> In 2013, Sanders introduced a bill
>> <https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/1782> in
>> Congress seeking to enact a “Medicare-for-All Single Payer Health Care
>> System” that tracks closely with his current proposal. But so far, the
>> Sanders campaignhas not released specific details
>> <http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/making-sense-democratic-fight-over-health-care-n496186> about
>> how he would pay for his plan. That makes it difficult for industry experts
>> to assess how it might work in practice
>> <http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jan/13/how-much-would-bernie-sanders-health-care-plan-cos/>
>> .
>> Clinton is using dishonest arguments against single-payer health care.
>>
>> This week, the Clinton camp has been repeating an argument against
>> Bernie’s plan that amounts to an unfair characterization
>> <http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/pat-garofalo/articles/2016-01-13/hillary-clintons-bizarre-attack-on-bernie-sanders-health-care-plan> of
>> how universal health care actually works. Clinton argues that Bernie wants
>> to “take everything we currently know as health care, Medicare, Medicaid,
>> the CHIP Program, private insurance, now of the Affordable Care Act, and
>> roll it together” — suggesting that could cause millions of people to lose
>> their health insurance.
>>
>> It’s true that a single-payer system would replace all of the different
>> types of insurance that we have now, and it’s true that Americans would
>> initially have to shift to new plans. But that’s not a problem with
>> Sanders’ proposal — it’s actually the whole point. Proponents of universal
>> health care argue it will be more efficient and more equitable for the
>> government to administer one centralized health care program.
>>
>> “If anything, a single-payer plan like the one Sanders envisions would
>> result in more coverage than current arrangements would allow,” the
>> Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel and Jonathan Cohn point out
>> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chelsea-clinton-bernie-sanders-single-payer_56956c06e4b05b3245dad15a>.
>> That’s because, while there are still people who remain uninsured under
>> Obamacare because they haven’t signed up for a plan, a Medicare-for-all
>> system would treat insurance like a public good and require states to
>> automatically enroll their residents in plans.
>>
>> Clinton also argues that Sanders’ plan would result in a massive tax hike
>> for the middle class. While it’s true that a single-payer system would
>> necessitate a big raise in taxes
>> <http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jan/13/how-much-would-bernie-sanders-health-care-plan-cos/>,
>> this is a misleading way to frame it. Clinton doesn’t include that fact
>> that Sanders would also eliminate the health care costs
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/health/paying-till-it-hurts.html> currently
>> plaguing Americans in the form of premiums, deductibles, and co-pays.
>> The health care landscape has changed a lot since the passage of
>> Obamacare.
>>
>> Hillary Clinton has experience trying to pass health care reform
>> <http://prospect.org/article/hillarycare-mythology> in a contentious
>> political environment, going toe-to-toe with the insurance companies that
>> eventually torpedoed
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/29/us/health-care-debate-what-went-wrong-health-care-campaign-collapsed-special-report.html?pagewanted=all> the
>> 1993 legislation she supported. Why, then, would she want to attack a
>> populist vision of health insurance in a way that may protect those
>> insurers’ power?
>>
>> The landscape has changed considerably since the passage of President
>> Obama’s landmark health care reform law. In order to ensure Obamacare’s
>> success, Democrats had to partner with the health insurance industry and
>> figure out ways to make reform benefit hospitals’ and insurers’ bottom
>> lines. Now, as Democratic politicians are invested in preventing
>> Republicans from rolling back the gains under the health law, the insurance
>> industry has become somehow of an ally
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/us/politics/health-law-turns-obama-and-insurers-into-allies.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0>
>> .
>>
>> Clinton is no exception. Insurance companies know that, thanks to
>> Obamacare, there’s a lot at stake for them depending on who takes over the
>> White House — so they’ve been building connections
>> <http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/team-hillary-and-the-insurance-lobby> to
>> Clinton’s campaign. During this week’s dust-up, observers have been quick
>> to point out that Hillary’s line of attack makes sense considering the money
>> she now receives
>> <https://theintercept.com/2016/01/13/hillary-clinton-single-payer/> from
>> the insurance industry.
>> Sanders’ home state hasn’t figured out how to make single-payer work.
>>
>> The health care conflict between Clinton and Sanders draws out familiar
>> battle lines between a more pragmatic and a more leftist approach to
>> governing.
>>
>> Clinton has long been skeptical of single-payer’s political viability,
>> pointing out that Americans are fearful of anything that can be construed
>> as “socialized medicine
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/us/politics/27text-health.html>.”
>> There’s some evidence
>> <https://theintercept.com/2016/01/13/hillary-clinton-single-payer/> that
>> she’s been privately supportive of the single-payer model. But she clearly
>> isn’t hopeful about getting it through Congress and isn’t willing to attach
>> herself to this particular policy.
>>
>> There’s no denying the challenges. Even in Sanders’ home state, where
>> there was a lot of political support for opting out of Obamacare and
>> enacting a version of single-payer, local lawmakerscouldn’t get it done
>> <http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7427117/single-payer-vermont-shumlin>.
>> After three years of working toward the first universal health care system
>> in the country, they said they couldn’t figure out how to pay for it
>> <http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2014/12/17/in-striking-reversal-shumlin-abandons-single-payer-reforms> (though
>> some economists took issue
>> <http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/03/02/3628413/economists-vermont-health-care/> with
>> the governor’s estimate of the plan’s $3 billion price tag).
>>
>> When PolitiFact set out to assess
>> <http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jan/13/how-much-would-bernie-sanders-health-care-plan-cos/> Bernie
>> Sanders’ health plan this week, multiple experts gave cautious responses
>> about the senator’s proposed policy that echo the recent experience in
>> Vermont. They said it’s unclear how much it will cost and it’s unlikely
>> lawmakers would pass it.
>> Health care is a key issue for progressive voters.
>>
>> For years, grassroots activists
>> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447696/> calling for
>> universal health care have influenced the Left’s thinking on this issue —
>> and made progress in branding insurance as a basic human right
>> <http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/07/18/3457941/health-care-human-right/>
>> .
>>
>> Now, this issue could have ripple effects throughout the presidential
>> primary. Single-payer is a fairly popular policy among Democratic voters.
>> According to the Kaiser Family Foundation
>> <http://kff.org/uninsured/poll-finding/kaiser-health-tracking-poll-december-2015/0>,
>> self-identified Democrats either strongly favor (52 percent) or somewhat
>> favor (24 percent) the general idea of creating a government-run health
>> care program to insure all Americans.
>>
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