the democrats plans. author of the cure and hope for healthcare expert stepped in with a closer look. thanks for joining us, appreciate it. we are talking that debate coming up. let s look at who is participating in that, we have ten candidates able to meet the qualifications and one of the big issues will be healthcare and you can see from this poll that 36% of people think that is the top issue facing america today, economy coming in second, 10% less but healthcare big issue for them. when we take all the candidates everyone talking medicare for all and everyone over here the candidates support some version, these do not support it. let s be real when talking about medicare for all it is not medicare at all. when you start to break down the
of that, the next one is candidates who support creating a public option and you can see all the democratic candidates on board for this. everybody saying the government needs to run healthcare. the government hasn t done a great job with the va lately. if you want to stand in line with your healthcare these days, the challenge, the only candidate who has any type of financial modeling is joe biden which still $500 billion short of what the public option would cost. shannon: no doubt he will be talking about that in the debate coming up. covering illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants should because it under the healthcare plan. these candidates say yes, these candidates a now. these candidates haven t said one way or the other and the caveat is yang who says they have to be on a pathway to citizenship to be covered by the health care plan. this is a big debate. americans have good hearts.
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lives. that should be the slogan. when a lot of people were saying let detroit go brups, general motors and ford go bankrupt, joe biden s call, he needs to mention that tonight. i m sure he will. i was surprised there ere some missed opportunities last night that i think some candidates tonight can learn from and certainly what karen and paul touched on was one of them. we re in a state where democrats need to win. that s, yes whereiny electitability argument but you can tell through the story, what you re going to do for the people who don t have health care, african-americans in this city who feel disenfranchised. what did they miss last night? the moderators brought up our our colleagues at cnn where they brought up some of these issues, i think what you can tell from the city and state is an important part what these candidates have an opportunity
ainsley: gosh, i can t get that story out of my mind. thanks, guys. california officially becoming the first state to provide health benefits to illegal immigrants. gavin newsom signed that 98-million-dollar plan to provide 90,000 illegals with medicaid. contributor and host of the fox nation shows keeping up the jones and man on the street. lawrence jones is with us. hey, lawrence, good to see you. hey, good morning. ainsley: good morning. so governor gavin newsom signed that bill yesterday. your thoughts? well, this is them protecting illegals yet again. this has become the new priority of the democratic party. remember what the democrats said on the debate stage a couple weeks ago that they re anti-obamacare essentially and they want to give healthcare to all illegals. that is the position that the democratic party california they have a problem with homeless people on the street right now that don t have healthcare. a lot of mental health issues. they are not even taking care o