eliminating private healthcare insurance. this is the fifth straight election we re litigating healthcare. i thought these problems were supposed to be solved by obama care ten years ago. dana: it s still the number one issue people worry about. joe biden last night tweeted this. let s clear up the confusion about medicare for all. we have the facts. cost three times more than joe biden s plan, only paid for by raising middle class taxes. healthcare probably will be another topic tonight, right? that s where you have kamala harris, joe biden already attacking her. expect fireworks tonight? on some topics but certainly on healthcare, no question about it. because it is the number one issue for all voters. that s how democrats won in 2018. no question, you ll see joe biden tonight hugging the obamacare model which was still the most popular thing around. can kamala harris run a contrast? is there a better, different way to go about it.
free healthcare, through the medicade program, you are going to lose a whole slew of the voters. dana: you leave washington, d.c. you get more frank with people. look, the polling with the moderates, you poll medicare for all, democrats want universal health coverage. dana: aoc last night tweeted that s the same thing. the minute you tell them private insurance goes away, the polling plummets for it. i think there s a problem that a lot of voters, insiders play this game. lot of voters, you tell them you re taking away their healthcare, support plummets. bernie and warren are going to have to wrestle with that. dana: president trump will be happy to define it for them. look, lot of those candidates on that stage aren t going very far. but what they did, the purpose they did serve was to push bernie and senator warren to the left on that issue of
this one. i hope i don t put you in a difficult position but the charge against democrats from donald trump has always been that they re socialists. when you have the leading contenders of the democratic party saying that the government is going to take over all health care and you re not going to be able to choose the doctor you want to choose, like you said all those things that when you dig medicare for all, by the way, an awesome bumper sticker. sure. an awesome bumper sticker, but when pew went down and started digging, what does this mean? first of all, you re not going to be able to keep your doctor. right. you re not going to be able to make your health care choices. the government is taking that over for you. support plummets. so did the democrats play into donald trump s hands last night, when the contenders said, yes, medicare for all and we re getting rid of health care private health care coverage for 180 million americans?
debate starts about how exactly we do that, support plummets. sure. but just because something is hard, that doesn t mean we shouldn t do it. rich people are living in smaller and smaller defended enclaves while the middle class is dying out. business reporter ben popken, thank you. we ll be right back. we ll be right back. it s a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable, with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. for psoriatic arthritis, otezla is proven to reduce joint swelling, tenderness, and pain. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don t use if you re allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression