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msongs

(67,504 posts)
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 03:28 PM Jan 2019

Key House Democrat Wimps Out of Holding Medicare for All Hearings -

original article title includes "Wimps out"

https://splinternews.com/key-house-democrat-wimps-out-of-holding-medicare-for-al-1831845787?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=splinter_facebook&utm_campaign=sharebar&fbclid=IwAR3F8qqLMz35XgvGOugDqEfs0oZj3oFoI6lvzxkp0BgataNAKIfjJcEmkaE

" ANNA ESHOO walks back vow on Medicare-for-all hearing. The Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee chair told reporters Wednesday afternoon she’d hold a hearing on Democrats’ Medicare for All proposals — a seeming break with Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) that would mark a significant victory for the party’s progressive wing.

But by Wednesday evening, the California Democrat was having second thoughts, telling POLITICO’s Adam Cancryn that her subcommittee needed to prioritize shoring up Obamacare and crafting sweeping drug price reforms.

Only after the committee gets done with those issues, Eshoo said, will she see if there’s any “spare time” to tackle Medicare for All — an outcome that she suggested was unlikely."
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Meet the new dems, same as the old dems?

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Key House Democrat Wimps Out of Holding Medicare for All Hearings - (Original Post) msongs Jan 2019 OP
Ugh. NurseJackie Jan 2019 #1
I agree we need to shore up ACA & drug price reform. GentryDixon Jan 2019 #3
No wimps allowed! Faux pas Jan 2019 #2
Edit, they're prioritizing Obama care uponit7771 Jan 2019 #4
You Have to Put... jayfish Jan 2019 #5
Exactly! Andy823 Jan 2019 #8
Eshoo has been in Congress since 1993 and Pallone since 1988. Neither are new. suffragette Jan 2019 #6
Meet the old dems, same as the old dems. Mariana Jan 2019 #7
Going after costs is ok to me Midnightwalk Jan 2019 #9

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
1. Ugh.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 03:31 PM
Jan 2019
her subcommittee needed to prioritize shoring up Obamacare and crafting sweeping drug price reforms.
This makes good sense to me. I'm not going to crucify someone for setting priorities and tackling the most urgent items and things that are realistically possible.

GentryDixon

(2,965 posts)
3. I agree we need to shore up ACA & drug price reform.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 03:40 PM
Jan 2019

My prednisone increased from 1.40 for 90 pills in 2018 to 8.41 in 2019. This drug has been around for years. It is the same with the insulin prices. Greed. Pure & simple.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
8. Exactly!
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 04:37 PM
Jan 2019

They need to get the current problems with the ACA fixed before anything else. Medicare for all should be discussed, but until trump is gone, and we have a Democrat in the WH, discussing is about as far as it will go.

Mariana

(14,863 posts)
7. Meet the old dems, same as the old dems.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 04:33 PM
Jan 2019

Rep. Eshoo has been in the House since 1993 and is 76 years old. She is not in any sense a "new dem".

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
9. Going after costs is ok to me
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 04:41 PM
Jan 2019

I support single payer and that would get rid of some of our ridiculous costs, but I am not convinced it will do enough.

There is enough negative press and sentiment on prescription price gouging that it may be an easier problem to solve over the next two years.

We need to reduce our costs by over a trillion dollars a year to get close to what ither countries pay. There will be tremendous push back.

We have to fix prescription prices eventually anyway.

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