I believe our leadership in the world, our vision for americas future, nominated for a second term, but nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes ambition. I decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. Paul welcome to the journal editorial report. That was president Joe Biden on wednesday addressing the nation following his abrupt departure from the 2024 president ial race saying it was time to pass the torch to a new generation of democrats. The Oval Office remarks capped an extraordinary three days in American Politics with democrats quickly coalescing around Kamala Harris on sunday. Allowing the Vice President To Quickly Sikora the support to become the presumptive nominee. I am joined by Wall Street Journalist bill and Him Straw also. The party is coalescing behind Kamala Harris quickly. How is she able to get the delegate so fast. They wanted the chaos to stop they were very concerned about having a continued Fight Go On
and said how he s going to pay for it but it gets him halfway there. every study done shows medicare for all is the most cost effective approach to providing health care to every man, woman and child in this country. i, who wrote the damn bill, if i may say so, intend to eliminate all out-of-pocket expenses. while bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. and on page eight on page eight of the bill it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it. i don t think that s a bold idea. i think it s a bad idea. paul: let s bring in wall street journal columnist kim strassel, kyle peterson and james freeman. so james, who do you think got the better of that very important health care exchange? i think klobuchar and biden raised the right questions for which sanders and warren don t have an answer. this plan as senator klobuchar pointed out is going to get rid of private insurance in america. it s also going to get rid of most of the othe insurance, the gover
and the senator has come forward and said how he s going to pay for it but it gets him halfway there. every study done shows medicare for all is the most cost effective approach to providing health care to every man, woman and child in this country. i, who wrote the damn bill, if i may say so, intend to eliminate all out-of-pocket expenses. while bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. and on page eight on page eight of the bill it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it. i don t think that s a bold idea. i think it s a bad idea. paul: let s bring in wall street journal columnist kim strassel, kyle peterson and james freeman. so james, who do you think got the better of that very important health care exchange? i think klobuchar and biden raised the right questions for which sanders and warren don t have an answer. this plan as senator klobuchar pointed out is going to get rid of private insurance in america. it s also going to get rid of most
health care is personal to me. obamacare is personal to me. when i see the president try to tear it down and others propose to replace it and start over, that s personal to me too. we ve got to build on what we did because every american he deserves affordable health care. paul: let s bring in kim strassel, kate o dell and jason riley. so kate, what do you make of the biden ads? smart politics? i think it is smart politics because, look, he s trying to differentiate himself from the rest of the field and show he s not as radical as bernie or some of the other candidates who want to basically overhaul private insurance overnight and eliminate it. now, the policies are smart. the details are less stark than they may appear at first. he is proposing a public option which would be a major expansion of government health care and probably a weigh station to single payer. paul: it s a question of doing it in stages to get to a government run program or incrementally which is what
health care is personal to me. obamacare is personal to me. when i see the president try to tear it down and others propose to replace it and start over, that s personal to me too. we ve got to build on what we did because every american he deserves affordable health care. paul: let s bring in kim strassel, kate o dell and jason riley. so kate, what do you make of the biden ads? smart politics? i think it is smart politics because, look, he s trying to differentiate himself from the rest of the field and show he s not as radical as bernie or some of the other candidates who want to basically overhaul private insurance overnight and eliminate it. now, the policies are smart. the details are less stark than they may appear at first. he is proposing a public option which would be a major expansion of government health care and probably a weigh station to single payer. paul: it s a question of doing it in stages to get to a government run program or incrementally which is what