his more moderate policies will be better for the country than people like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, and to even some extent, kamala harris who advocates for medicare for all. he s been playing up not tearing down obamacare lately. that is a strategy, and something that southern voters respond to. what comes ahead of this debate, this second one. talk a little bit about their strategy knowing that when they are going to be on the debate stage, they re not going to be sharing that stage and the platform along with the other people they have the first time around. how is that dynamic going to be when it comes to the strategy leading up to it. certainly, and who you are on the debate stage with definitely matters. we will see a match up between joe biden and kamala harris again as we did last month and that should be interesting to see if some of the issues from the last round of debates come up again and if joe biden responds to her directly on the debate stage or tries to
sanders in 2016, saying he wants to tear down obamacare, trying to attack him for being too far to the left. but seeming to seeming to imply that he wanted to take people s health care away and people didn t believe that. they didn t believe what bernie sanders wanted to do was take people s health care away even if they might disagree with the policy. so we ll see how effective this is, particularly in a democratic primary. and you do have, again, with 20 something more of them in the medicare for all camp, although there are degrees of difference about how fast to get there. do you have to get rid of all private insurance or could there be some middle ground, that s a debate still unfolding. this is mayor pete buttigieg on the axe files this weekend. a lot of people don t want to hear that we re going to snatch away their private health plans. but i do think that we should be realistic about what s going to work and just flipping a switch and saying we re instantly going to h
life, you are on your own. you used up your time. the fact is that the quickest fastest way to build it is build on obamacare and do what we did. secondly, to make sure that everyone does have an option. everyone with private experience and employer experience and no insurance. they can buy in to a medicare-like plan. the way to do that can be done quickly. urgency matters. there is people right now facing what i faced and what we faced without any of the help i had. we must move now. i m against any democrat who takes down obamacare and any republican who wants it. [ applause ] senator sanders, you want to scrap the private health insurance system and replace it with a government-run plan. none of the states that tried something like that, california, vermont and new york were not successful.
happened if they said by the way, the last six months of your life, you are on your own. you used up your time. the fact is that the quickest fastest way to build it is build on obamacare and do what we did. secondly, to make sure that everyone does have an option. everyone with private experience and employer experience and no experience. they can buy in to a medicare-like plan. the way to do that can be done quickly. urgency matters. there is people right now facing what i faced and what we faced without any of the help i had. we must move now. i m against any democrat who takes down obamacare and any republican who wants it. [ applause ] senator sanders, you want to scrap the private health insurance system and replace it with a government-run plan. none of the states that tried
i can t fathom if they said by the way, the last six months of your life, you re on your own. you used up your time. the fact of the matter is we build on obamacare and what we did. secondly, to make sure that everyone does have an option. everyone whether they have private insurance or employer insurance or no insurance. they can buy in the exchange to a medicare-like plan. you can do it quickly. urgency matters. there is people right now facing what i faced. what we faced without any of the help i had. we must move now. i m against any democrat who takes down obamacare and any republican who wants to get rid of it. [ applause ] senator sanders, you want to scrap the private health insurance system and replace it with a government-run plan. none of the states that tried something like that.