More Than 90% of Democratic Voters Want 2020 Candidate to Make Climate Action and Medicare for All..

[guillaumeb]

More Than 90% of Democratic Voters Want 2020 Candidate to Make Climate Action and Medicare for All Top Priorities: Poll

From the article:

The global climate crisis and Medicare for All are top issues for a large majority of Democratic voters, according to new polling results published Tuesday by CNN.
The survey (pdf), conducted last week, asked Democrats and left-leaning Independents how important they considered certain policy items.
Most people polled said it is somewhat or very important that the Democratic candidate for president in 2020 support party priorities like stricter gun laws, tuition-free public college, impeaching President Donald Trump, paying reparations to slaves' descendants, and restoring voting rights for all convicted felons.

But two issues stood out at the top.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/30/more-90-democratic-voters-want-2020-candidate-make-climate-action-and-medicare-all?cd-

These are winning issues. And climate change is truly an existential crisis.

[WeekiWater]

1. Joe Biden was one of the first Senators to put forward legislation directed at climate.

And I believe his approach is the way to go toward a single payer system.

Good news.

[guillaumeb]

2. It is good news.

The Democratic candidates recognize the need to address these issues.

The GOP ignores these issues.

[onit2day]

10. Bernie Sanders has legislation before the senate right now for Medicare for all

btw guillaumeb...love your guitar icon. I hope all our candidates adapt the Green New Deal as well. That will turn our country around big time.

[guillaumeb]

15. The Green New Deal has the possibility of being the New Deal,

updated for 2019.

My guitar icon stands for my instruments.

[Nuggets]

21. Its a big nothing

It’s a plan. Pelosi already has a commission to which protesting AOC refused to join and previously made a fool of herself protesting for a committee to focus on climate change. Way to be informed AOC!


A newbie and a grand stander who is suddenly all over the media unlike any other Dem. She is being pushed everywhere and it makes me apprehensive because, oh, I SO trust the media.
None of her ideas are new either but I see people keep attempting to give her credit for them all the time.
I hope she has the good sense to work with Democrats. I seriously doubt it though.

[guillaumeb]

22. Welcome to DU.

Both are vital.

If we continue on this carbon path, the future will be horrible.

[LonePirate]

3. Yes, those are winning issues but they are DOA without a Democratic majority in the Senate.

Priority #1 - Winning the presidency
Priority #2 - Winning the Senate and maintaining the House
Priority #3 - Passing and enacting legislation

Nothing will be achieved without the Senate but the candidates never seem to talk about that.

[guillaumeb]

4. Correct.

[onit2day]

14. Maybe not on Health care since it's nonpartisan and hugely popular with the public

But since when does McConnell care about any of that, I know.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread guillaumeb.

[Indygram]

6. I prefer Medicare for America

Which is what Beto supports, and he has a great Climate Change Plan.

[robbedvoter]

8. yes. Me too.

[robbedvoter]

7. There isn't one dem candidate who is not targeting those issues

whether they use the prescribed slogan word or have their own name. No make or break in the primary on those.

[Doitnow]

9. The right to VOTE ought to be guaranteed for No. 3, because without that we have nothing.

[onit2day]

12. Exactly. Then we need to delete Citizens United (in reality-Corporations United)

and get big money out of elections. We can introduce legislation to put limits on media profiteering from election campaigns. No campaigning until 5 mos before an election, limited free radio/tv time.

[DownriverDem]

11. I'd like to see the details

Medicare Part A is paid for by employment deductions.

Medicare Part B usually comes out of Social Security monthly funds.

Then folks have to go and get another policy to pay for what isn't covered in Part A and Part B.

We need to see the details.

[onit2day]

13. The medicare for all bill in the senate has the details and if all covered, covers dental & vision

There is no Part A and B, nothing a patient has to figure. Gov is the payer, no deductibles or co-pays. Taxes cover it all and if you're too poor it doesn't matter as everyone is covered and the Office of Budget Management predicts it will be far cheaper than what we are now paying for Health care and a lot less complicated. We are the only industrial nation without single payer healthcare. Time to end the billion dollar ins profiteering. They operate at a min 20% overhead thanks to the ACA. Medicare operates at 3% overhead since they don't have a profit margin to uphold.

[guillaumeb]

16. The Medicare "gaps" in coverage were designed in.

That way, profit makers could profit from denying access.

[NYMinute]

17. lol common(pipe)dreams is chasing unicorns again. nt

[guillaumeb]

19. The fact that most industrialize democracies

have a form of single payer is no dream.

[rogue emissary]

18. The questions the poll asked are vague.

Also, none of questions even referenced specific legislation.

[guillaumeb]

20. And given that specific legislation is not currently being considered,

this is no surprise.