Elizabeth Warren’s and Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All funding plans reveal strategic differences among progressives.
Agenda 2020
Posted inPolitics
The Battle for Progressive Policy Goes Through Congress
Hyper-focused on the presidency, too many people have lost sight of the key upcoming fights in the House and Senate.
Posted inTAP
Warren Answers Her Critics on Medicare for All
Today on TAP: Upending the culture of ‘No We Can’t’
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Warren’s Medicare for All Plan Includes No New Taxes on the Middle Class
The deeply detailed proposal cuts health care costs and finds other revenues, saving ordinary Americans $11 trillion in premiums and deductibles.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Thanks to Sanders, Conditioning Aid to Israel Is Entering the National Conversation
Speaking at the J Street conference, the senator from Vermont electrified the ‘pro-Israel’ crowd with his brand of tough love.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Marijuana Legalization Plan Shows Sanders Is No Socialist
His proposal seeks to create a class of marijuana small-business owners, rather than nationalizing the industry and forwarding the benefits to victims of marijuana prohibition.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Warren Should Pay for Medicare for All
If the presidential candidate wants to avoid middle-class tax increases, she should vow to drastically push down health care provider prices.
Posted inWorking in America
Sanders and Warren Take Aim at Taft-Hartley
Both candidates favor repealing much of the law that slammed the brakes on unions’ growth.
Posted inPolitics
The Medicare for All Cost Debate Is Extremely Dishonest
Biden and Buttigieg get to avoid the cost debate, though their own proposals, if successful, will almost surely cost as much as Sanders’s.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Great News: The Supreme Court Might Attack the CFPB
It sounds bad, but it would likely enable a Democratic president to get rid of an unqualified, anti-regulatory Consumer Financial Protection director immediately.
