"I think one of the most significant things we've done in our administration is pass the Affordable Care Act", Biden said. Biden, who has consistently led in early polling, is potentially the worst option for the party, they say, warning that Democrats could repeat the mistakes of 2016.
To that end, "Sanders' supporters feel that Biden's approach is too incremental and antiquated". One Democrat activist, Allegra Dengler, spoke to NPR about Biden, saying with more than a hint of condemnation, "We need to go to the future".
But it was Sanders's staff who really shot back Biden.
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about foreign policy at The Graduate Center at CUNY, Thursday, July 11, 2019, in NY. "I've never had any trouble taking anyone on from Trump to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin to (Chinese President) Xi Jinping himself". The gamble, of course, is that Biden is making claims that his plan would allow patients to keep their doctor on an existing plan, a scenario which didn't pan out when it was promised the first time by President Obama.
If President Lyndon Johnson could implement Medicare in under a year back in 1965, with not even half the technology we have today, Sanders argued there's no reason we can't implement his more ambitious plan in 2019.
Some Democratic White House hopefuls are joining Biden in advocating for the public option, arguing it will be hard to go much further.
The plan was unveiled just days after Biden's nonprofit Cancer Initiative suspended operations through the end of the campaign.
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 855 Plus is built for 5G, gaming and AI
We are just a week away from the reveal of the ASUS ROG Phone 2 in China, but leaks on the gaming device aren't coming out a lot. Qualcomm's proprietary Adreno GPUs are a bit of a black box, but the Adreno 640 in the 855+ is apparently faster as well.
Biden's plan would allow people to buy into a government-run insurance program, allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices with manufacturers, eliminate the income cap on Obamacare subsidies, and expand Medicaid to roughly 5 million more people.
Senator Kamala Harris's support in California has surged, a new Quinnipiac University poll shows, putting her in a statistical tie with former Vice President Joe Biden among Democrats in her home state.
"It's a new Medicare system", Biden said at a presidential candidate forum held by the AARP.
On a call with reporters on Sunday, campaign staff stressed that Biden wouldn't settle for a watered-down compromise as president and that his plan would help 97 percent of Americans get health coverage.
The article opens with the statement, "Justin Krebs, a campaign director with MoveOn, isn't interested in hearing pundits debate which 2020 Democratic candidate is the most 'electable'". She also said she doesn't see a middle-class tax hike needed to fund her proposal, and she'd instead eye more targeted new revenue sources such as going after Wall Street. A sudden transition to "Medicare for All", he said, "is kind of risky". Elizabeth Warren, support Medicare for All. Such gaffes, he's said, are "wonderful compared to a guy who can't tell the truth".
Biden, a two-term vice president under Barack Obama, said that Trump's behavior is harming the United States in the eyes of other countries. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard didn't register, falling from 2 percent and 1 percent, respectively. Biden said he wouldn't play into Trump's confrontational nature in a debate, citing his experience as his tool in aiding his preparation.
"I think the second debate could make or break Biden", he said.
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