Medicare for All

Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman thinks the media Is badly botching the Medicare-For-All debate. He's correct.

Yesterday, The Washington Post introduced us to a sad new feature of its 2020 coverage, The Post 2020 Power Ranking. Karen Tumulty, the moderator, noted that her "pick for the most interesting candidate-to-be is Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

If she refuses to support Democratic policies, why should we care if she loses in 2020?On Thursday, CNN had Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on for a brief interview. When asked a process question about how she can win, her response stuck with me. "My strategy is not strategy.

Medicare For All supporters hold signs during an event on healthcare September 13, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

 Bernie Sanders' November 2016 aggregate approval rating. Net favorable: +18%  Hillary Clinton's November 2016 aggregate approval rating.

Carbon emissions are supposed to be going down. And they have been-- until Trump's policies started kicking in this year. This year they started increasing again, carbon dioxide up 3.4% according to a report in the NY Times on the work by the Rhodium Group.

In the piece Saturday about the Congressional Progressive Caucus idea of Pay-Go legislation rather than having opposed it as a rule, I neglected to mention how hard it would have been to go back and fight for the negotiated package the CPC had decided to prioritize-- the Medicare-For-All debate agreement perhaps being the most important p

Tepid, establishment Democrats-- especially corporately financed ones like Chuck Schumer-- are still too cowardly to grab the healthcare bull by the horns, look it directly in the eyes and say "now's the time." Although 124 House Democrats are co-sponsoring Medicare-For-All and although the public overwhelmingly backs it,

The Subcommittee on Health-- the membersThis morning I was on David Feldman's radio show and people were happy I had shown the connection between committee chairman and immense bribery flows from special interests the day before. OK, let me follow up on that a bit then.

When John Conyers introduced the 2017 version of the Medicare for All bill in the House, H.R. 676, there were 51 original cosponsors. Last week, the bill got it's 124th co-sponsor, Brenda Jones from Detroit, Conyers' old seat, which she will hold until the expiration of his seat at the end of the month. Although the co-sponsors were all progressives in the beginning, by last spring, died-in-the wool conservatives-- 17 New Dems and even Blue Dogs from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- were signing on (still no Beto, though):