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" ANNA ESHOO walks back vow on Medicare-for-all hearing. The Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee chair told reporters Wednesday afternoon shed 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 partys progressive wing.
But by Wednesday evening, the California Democrat was having second thoughts, telling POLITICOs 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 theres 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?
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)GentryDixon
(2,970 posts)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.
Faux pas
(14,760 posts)This is war and we need EVERYONE to be strong to win.
uponit7771
(90,407 posts)jayfish
(10,042 posts)the fire out before you can rebuild the house.
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.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Mariana
(14,867 posts)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)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.