that s very good. making sure we re doing outreach for young people so healthier people, younger people are part of the pool so that costs go down. that piece of it, coupled with extending children s health insurance, health centers, community health centers, roy blount and i have 70 senators on a letter, we want to extend health center money, bipartisan effort. that s what we want to be done. that s what we want to do before the end of the week. and we re wasting all our time. the president would probably support all of that. i m sure the president would support all of that. i hope that senator mcconnell will see the votes aren t there. he ll stop it and we can go on to these things where we could actually get something done. steve ratner has some charts on financial ramifications of the plan. there are good reasons why this plan is on life support, as senator stabenow said. we ll run through numbers, financial and real impact on
forward a single payer plan. is that the way to go right now, or is it time to find something that the majority of congress, or at least, say, even a simple majority of congress, of democrats and republicans, can agree on, something more in the middle? look, bernie sanders has advocated medicare for all, but he s also been the point person for the senate democrats in defeating the repeated public attempts to throw tens of millions of people off their health insurance. i think the people you re seeing on their screen being dragged out of the public hearing room have it right. we talk about numbers and statistics and all this, but at the end of the day, people in this did you ncountry are goingf republicans get their way. i think the focus has to be on
the california senate planned a single payer plan. as lindsey graham said right now we have a choice. the choice is american federalism or socialism and to me that s like choosing between ice cream and manure. it s an easy one. or you had, ana, the bipartisan effort from lamar alexander and patty murray to fix the existing system. look, i think this is going to end up being a bipartisan effort, if not now, later. we ve already tried this as a, you know, one party solution. from the republicans that failed because it was a one-party solution. it had major flaws. this one also has major flaws. i think a lot of republicans are wrestling with what chuck grassley articulated there. no the fact that it is a campaign issue should be great motivation to keep working at it but what they need to do is work
republicans campaigned on this so often they have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the campaign. is that a reason to rush something through that is so huge for so many americans as their health care policy? just so you can do it with a simple majority? i m well aware that republicans were not a yes vote on obamacare and there are problems with obamacare, perhaps as a result of not a bipartisan effort. yeah. he s right. because we re in the 11th hour right now and we re beyond this being an essay question. this is a multiple choice test. the democrats tipped their hand earlier this week or last week when bernie sanders had that press conference with a bunch of people standing behind him, a bunch of u.s. senators, and it s not just the ghost of christmas past standing there, there was the ghost of christmas future, there were five potential democrats who might be running for president in 2020 standing there signing on for single payer. here in the state of california, gav
at a real solution, at a bipartisan solution, at a compromise solution. giant crises, national crises, like health care, like immigration, require that bad c word compromise, require getting minds, getting the top minds on both parties to come in and bring their different angles to the table. one party solutions are rarely the ones that work with something so major as health care. john? she s right. i bring joe manchin into the room right now and i would put him at the table and i would try to get his vote. the governor in the state of west virginia just switched parties from democrat to republican. it s a state that donald trump won overwhelmingly. and right now, people like joe manchin and heidi hide camp in north dakota are feeling the heat because they don t want to sign on to single payer health care the direction their party is going in. i would involve those people as much as humanly possible. they ve been in talks, meetings, meals, on the plane,