Schumer balks at Medicare-for-all: "I'm going to support a plan that can pass, and that can provide the best, cheapest health care for all Americans." pic.twitter.com/oK0x15v21J
— Matt Shuham (@mattshuham) December 16, 2018
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Schumer:
That’s a fine, pragmatic statement but I hope it does not mean that Leader Schumer isn’t going to lead.
I’m guessing he’s positioning himself so he doesn’t have to be a follower. (And yeah, medicare-for-all does work better as a slogan than as a basis for legislation.)
Why is that? Since it’s a single payer system already in place, what mitigates against expanding it?
TPM - Reprinting tweets with zero information or commentary, in the hopes of becoming as successful as Drudge?
And they wanted to replace Pelosi?