Kamala Harris Walks Back Call to Eliminate Private Health Insurance – IOTW Report

Kamala Harris Walks Back Call to Eliminate Private Health Insurance

Breitbart: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), 2020 presidential candidate, walked back her call for eliminating private health insurance and replacing it with a single-payer, government-run “Medicare for All” program less than 24 hours after she made her inflammatory remarks.

Harris inflamed controversy on Monday night during a CNN town hall in which she suggested that she would eliminate private health insurance for millions of Americans and replace it with a “Medicare for All” socialized medicine program.

“It is inhumane to make people go through a system where they cannot literally receive the benefit of what medical science can offer,” Harris said on Monday night. “Because some insurance company has decided it doesn’t meet their bottom line in terms of their profit motivation.”

Less than 24 hours later, a Harris adviser and Harris national press secretary Ian Sams said Harris remains willing to back health insurance proposals that would not eliminate private health insurance. The Harris adviser said the backlash from Republicans serves as “good trouble” for the California Democrat.

“Medicare-for-all is the plan that she believes will solve the problem and get all Americans covered. Period,” Sams told CNN. “She has co-sponsored other pieces of legislation that she sees as a path to getting us there, but this is the plan she is running on.”
Harris’sc omments drew swift rebukes from fellow Democrats.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the second-highest Senate Democrat, expressed concern over Harris’s call to eliminate Americans’ health insurance.
“I don’t want to guess what [Harris is] thinking, but that is a massive part of the American economy. There is a system in place for funding it,” Durbin said. “It would take a mighty transition to move from where we are to that.”
Potential presidential candidates Michael Bloomberg and Howard Schultz also criticized Harris.
Bloomberg rebuked the idea of Medicare for All on Tuesday, saying, “You could never afford that, you’re talking about trillions of dollars.”
Former Starbucks CEO Schultz said the idea of Medicare for All is “not American.”  more here
SNIP: Starbucks guy is gonna be a steaming cup of trouble for the Dems.

12 Comments on Kamala Harris Walks Back Call to Eliminate Private Health Insurance

  1. Notice how Harris sent her advisor out to walk back her remarks and taste some crow. I guess she was busy sleeping with one of her PAC donors. I guess Kamala extended her “Sleeping Her Way to DC Tour 2017”.

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  2. That didn’t take long. When people tell you who they are, believe them! Kalamity Harris is a Kommunist, which is a Socialist-Democrat who can’t admit she’s really a Communist.

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  3. KOREA RUNS A QUSI-GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

    Private companies operate them, but the government has price controls and everyone is eligible for health care at a low monthly premium as low as $25/mo. Basic medicine is price-controlled and 3 day’s worth for a common cold doesn’t cost more that $5.

    The U.S. is so stupid, it has 2 choices:
    1. Privately run and not affordable.
    2. Government run and not able to obtain service.

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  4. Kamalala doesn’t have a chance without voter fraud.

    There are so many tapes of her being ugly toward conservatives, military, Angel Moms, border wall, and so on.

    CNN sponsored her coming out party? Kiss of death to America.

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  5. This just demonstrates the Democrats have a big struggle between their leftist progressive cabal and the old school party that at least understands you can’t completely kill the golden goose. Hillary has the same issue addressing Bernie in her rigged primary. Get the popcorn, should be an entertaining primary. The progs need to get on board with crony capitalism which isn’t going to happen since they’ve been raised corporations are the most evil thing that exists outside global warming and Trump/Republicans.

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  6. So the jerk that styles his name after a fictional wizard, opens his mouth and more stupid flies out, yeah dumbass, we should strive to be more like the koreans, I suggest you move there.

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  7. …Cortez and Harris are actually very valuable, as are the Muslim chicks, since they are revealing the TRUE agenda of the Democrats to anyone paying attention…I bet Piglosi would LOVE to borrow Hillary’s “suicide squad” for a couple of weeks, just to get them to shut UP…

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  8. Notice how none of the objections are because we each have the right to govern our own lives and to be free.

    Harris and the Left in general political beliefs aren’t policy issues. Their politics is actually the idea that they should be the sole arbiter of what is right and wrong and as a ruler be the King or Queen, the absolute ruler over society. That is their politics.

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