results of the 2018 elections where most moderate republicans or relatively moderate republicans from the more suburban parts of the country where gun control is very popular were defeated. the remaining republicans in the house and the critical mass of the republicans in the senate comes from parts of the country where background checks, they pool fine but gun control remains very unpopular, even in a moment of a national crisis like this. and republicans see the president as an absolutely necessary ingredient to offsetting the reservations on the right. the problem is we ve seen this dynamic a number of times already, going back not just to the previous gun debates, but if you think of the debate over obamacare, other legislative initiatives of this presidency, republicans have so many times seen the president go out there and endorse something in concept or speak favorably about something as an idea, and then in a matter of days or even hours flip back, depending on who he spoke to
paul: that was democratic presidential hopeful joe biden rolling out his health care plan in iowa this week the former vice president promising to finish the job over obamacare and rejecting calls for medicare for all. it s an effort to distinguish himself from some of his 2020 rivals, including vermont center bernie sanders. he took aim at biden this week accusing the democratic front-runner of sounding like donald trump on the issue but were back with him and stossel, kate odell and kyle peterson. kate, what is the fundamental difference between what biden is proposing and what the medicare for all crowd needs? there making much of their differences this week for the primary purpose but i don t think the differences are all that large. joe biden is talking about a public option and what a public option is the government ensures that expose and line of credit from the treasury and thus can undercut other insurers on premiums and cost and then can also have huge leverage to
paul: that was democratic presidential hopeful joe biden rolling out his health care plan in iowa this week the former vice president promising to finish the job over obamacare and rejecting calls for medicare for all. it s an effort to distinguish himself from some of his 2020 rivals, including vermont center bernie sanders. he took aim at biden this week accusing the democratic front-runner of sounding like donald trump on the issue but were back with him and stossel, kate odell and kyle peterson. kate, what is the fundamental difference between what biden is proposing and what the medicare for all crowd needs? there making much of their differences this week for the primary purpose but i don t think the differences are all that large. joe biden is talking about a public option and what a public option is the government ensures that expose and line of credit from the treasury and thus can undercut other insurers on premiums and cost and then can also have huge leverage to
energy for it and the creativity, but the truth of the matter is, you would have to raise taxes on everyone in order to pay for that plan. vice president biden s plan, you only raise taxes on the super rich. and that s how we get to funding what we need to do to make sure that 97% of the people in this country have access to affordable health care. so, listen, you know, president obama unsuccessfully lobbied a democratic-run congress to include a public option back in 2009. what makes the former vice president believe that he can get this done now? i think part of his experience from being out on the campaign trail for so many candidates in 2018. you heard the people. they spoke loud and clear that health care was a primary concern for how they voted. now, let s go back to 2012, 2014, when we took a shellacking over obamacare. it was very unpopular, but now
one, you have millions of americans who have private health insurance that want to keep their private health insurance. that s one. number two, you have a number of millions of americans who like the fact that they no longer have annual or lifetime caps on their benefits that they can no longer be discriminated against because of pre-existing conditions. and all of the things that obamacare s offered. all of those things that all of the people came out in the midterms to protect when they came out over health care and making sure that we protected obamacare. so you have a system in place that people like, and the system the other system that people propose, and i love the energy for it and the creativity, but the truth of the matter is, you would have to raise taxes on everyone in order to pay for that plan. vice president biden s plan, you only raise taxes on the super rich. and that s how we get to funding what we need to do to make sure that 97% of the people in this country hav