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Social insurance, medicare social security unemployment. they live to do tax cuts and they live to shred the social safety net. that s who they are as a party. i don t judge them morally. maybe i do a little bit, but that is their political strategy. that s what they ve done for 20 years or 30 years or 40 years. they never really loved medicare to begin with. so we know that s their game plan. you can count on it. that s why we fight back. that s why democrats are going to be successful in the midterms. final question. you re in a state that trumpcare i had by quite a few points, 7, 8 points. you re running ahead now. what is the issue terrain you re hearing when you re talking voters, engaged in this race at the local level? voters know that they know that president trump has followed the typical republican corporate agenda. except on trade, and i happen to agree with him mostly. i wish he d done it a little differently, putting mildly. ....
Affordable. so now the administrationis out with trumpcare. will americans like what is in the fine print? so let s discuss now. cnn s senior economics analyst stephen moore and jason candor, democratic candidate for mayor of kansas city. good evening, gentlemen. thank you so much. jason, what is the likelihood people will choose these plans based on cost and pay the price later when they get sick or need the coverage? that s the whole idea here, don. it s basically a scam. it s a piece of paper. it s not insurance coverage. folks will say, well, this, i can pay for it, it costs a lot less. they walk around with a piece of paper that actually doesn t give them access to a doctor. when i was in the army we had this saying that we would use, which is the checking the box is one of the worst forms of lying. what it means is that if you pretend to solve a problem, in some ways that can be worse than doing nothing at all because if you pretended to solve the problem, then people walk a ....
President and his lawyers attack the russia investigation, while his press secretary slams the press, while the lies just keep piling on, this week the administration quietly introduced what could be called obamacare. a new trumpcare, excuse me. trumpcare. a new federal rule clears the way for short-term health insurance plans that let consumers buy coverage for just under a year at a time. they are expected to be a lot cheaper than what s currently offered. their premium is around half of the average cost of plans sold under obamacare. so what s the catch here? well, you get what you pay for. and these plans, they don t pay for much. so here we go. one analysis shows that only 57% of the plans cover mental health care. 38% cover substance abuse treatment. and none of them, zero percent, cover maternity care. you probably won t be able to buy them if you have a preexisting condition. and if you buy this insurance and then need to use it, watch ....
yes, that s right. the way we win this is the exact same way that we defeated trumpcare. back then it looked quite unlikely. if we keep in mind that was the top legislative priority of a unified conservative government the like of which we hadn t even seen in over a decade, folk thought there s no way we could defeat it and we won by keeping democrats together and peeling off a couple republicans. it s the same game plan now. i m not saying we are guaranteed victory but there is a path stroirkt. it is narrow and i think you re exactly right. it s going to be through maine and alaska and through keeping the entire democratic caucus together. literally today there were events by indivisible groups in maine and alaska, let alone in places like texas and california and all across from sea to shining sea. this is going to be won by constituent power. it s going to be won by people actually showing up. and the way this starts is not just by focusing on maine and alaska, though. the way tha ....
Precedent and ticks through the various factors that are involved when you decide to jettison the president. it s a kind of trust but verify situation. if you want to trust them, you ll trust them. let s see what she you know, she ll hear what she wants to hear. ezra levin, your organization was very effective in countering the republican congressional attempts to repeal the affordable care act. it seems you re trying to bring the same activism to this. do you have a strategy to deal specifically with senator collins and senator murkowski? yes, that s right. the way we win this is the exact same way that we defeated trumpcare. back then it looked quite unlikely. if we keep in mind that was the top legislative priority of a unified conservative government the like of which we hadn t even seen in over a decade, folk thought there s no way we could defeat it and we won by keeping democrats together and peeling off a couple republicans. it s the same game plan now. i m not saying we ....