Booker doubles down on support of both 'Medicare for All' and private insurance plans

Washington Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker doubled down on his decision to support a"Medicare for All" bill that would effectively eliminate private insurance plans while also supporting individuals' ability to maintain private insurance plans under the system, saying his support for both will help such a proposal pass through Congress should he become president.

"I stand by supporting Medicare for All, but I'm also that pragmatist that, when I'm chief executive of the country, like I was , I'm going to find the immediate things that we can do," Booker told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday on"State of the Union.

Source: Insurance Report (insurancereport.net)

Who is paying CoryBooker SenSanders?

Is he crazy take away my healthcare and he wont have to worry about his anymore ever,The people wont put up with that the man is insane.

Ur unfit look at how bad ur constituents r doing under u.

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I agree...the medical insurance plan is the BIGGEST SCAM in America TODAY!!...you're paying money each month..bi-weekly from your paycheck for a service YOU NEVER GET!!..YOUR INSURANCE DOES NOT HELP YOU, JUST WHEN YOU NEED IT THE MOST!!..SO WHY ARE WE PAYING THEM..STOP NOW!!

Medicare is inferior to many employer provided insurance plans. Secondary insurance will be needed which will likely shift away from employers to personal out of pocket plans. People will end up spending more money for the same coverage and with added government bureaucracy.

is that like Obama saying your can keep you plan and keep your doctor which under the best case was FLAT OUT LIE

Why don’t all u have it. Ur hurting all ppl it’s not free & the worst care

Where have we heard that promise before? I know If you like your health insurance you can keep your health insurance.

A good intent is not necesarily A good result; Medicaid is a good intended program to assist the economically disadvantaged; however, the result is that the abuses of this program are exorbitant.

How can you eliminate private insurance plans, but support individuals' ability to maintain private insurance plans? YouCanKeepYourPlan … yeah, Thanks to Obama, we've heard that before. It was a lie then, as it is now. Just more control over the population. Nazis

Booker would ruin this country faster then you could say Spartacus

Eventhough you have Medicare, you must have insurance for the supplementals. So private insurance is still required.

Remember Obama you can keep your doctor. This will also kill retired people that need Medicare.

And America becomes bankrupt in 1.....2...........

Booger is never going to get that chance

Typical liberal socialist election gimmick, promise free stuff. But it's never free, keep your hands off of my money thank you.

You all have the house, start the process now and quit lying to the people. You might as well throw the reparations lie in there with it. Hell why stop there, throw in the free education with it! Put your money where yo mouth is! You can’t piss on me and call it raindrops.

No chance

How are you going to pay for that?

Far-left radical

Will he using this type coverage?

How is he doing in the Democrats race...tough spot...I guess. How to fund programs he is proposing will be his uphill task...the policies he is proposing will erode all the economic gains...its difficult to anticipate expenditures of such programs...you can't put a cap on health!

Oh SPARTACUS! Messed up again.

who would want private insurance when we can have Medicare...

That’s why he and the rest of the Dem’s candidates are going to lose big in 2020 no vision, no program, no legislation to show they have done anything. Everyone running on the same platform to get your vote!! Then back to the Obama way of running your government. Bad for us!!!

What More double talk and stupidity by a liberal Democrat

KISS Keep it simple stupid

It was a catastrophic failure in Vermont. Obamacare was a catastrophic failure too. Democrats can't be trusted with our healthcare.

If that’s not double talk, I don’t know what is. Shameful! 🇺🇸

You can’t have private insurance as it is now and also Medicare for all. Why would doctors take the lower reimbursement rates of Medicare?

Booker is still looking for the how to use instructions on the toilet paper packaging.

It will come out of even higher taxes!

He knows it will not happen. He could say that in the first 100 days of his Presidency he will put a man/woman on Mars. Same result.

Never be president. Not a chance in hell. CNN loses again.

Is Congress exempt from this one too?

Spartacus will never be POTUS. He is an “Affirmative Action” legacy that doesn’t really have the mojo to go any further than his current position.

No worry, No HOPE of his getting elected, all fodder!

Quick one,, aca cancelled our group plans. Was paying $350.00 a month aca $650.00 with a huge deductible. I was forced to retire the young people with kids got fled. Demorats get lost.

Want free insurance? Want free college? Join the military and earn it.

So... will congress be on this plan? Hehehehe

Just concern about your security borders, while you claim that you are supporter of human rights. I_ASK_YOU to lift US treasury sanction on parsisotope, the sole manufacturer of radiopharmaceuticals in IRAN, which has been banned by your cruelty

the government should abolish all insurances period,have a state run situation for when things happen,or find a way to expose the legal extortion in insurance and make them more responsible.

Who's paying?

Doesn't make sense..if eliminated...how would u have a choice? 🙄

These democrats will lose very badly they’d wish hillary was their candidate

THIS (BETA) 'MAN' IS A THREAT TO THE REPUBLIC

It's gonna end up a Single Payer system it has to!Like the Rest of the World!Trouble is we're a Capitalistic Country!The Medical Industry has been a Big industry since German Bayer invented the Asprin!Trick is to make it Universal & keep the Medical Industry use 2 normal Profits!

Watching the left try to out left each other for the nomination is going to make the next 12 months amazing

It’s just like Warren’s student loan plan. People pay years into Medicare, now Dems want to add 173 million to the plan. How stupid are these people?

Comrade Booker needs to move to a socialist country

Yet...he said in his chat with Tapper that he wanted the 156 million who have private insurance to be able to keep their coverage. So he signed on to something he actually doesn't believe in?

Hmm... govt control over people's lives. How long before they just go ahead and decide they've got a right as authoritarian overlords to kill us if we disagree with them? I guess people love to be controlled these days...

He also double down laying cops off in Newark so crime goes up 30%. This guy is a fraud he has done nothing for Newark and 0.0 for this country. CNN and Booker, Booker, Booker and nothing to highlight. It's true CNN never investigated anything.

Let me guess, if you like your plan you can keep it...

Nobody is taking these clowns seriously. KAG

Dem=Liberals would have you believe this crap. You can't have both 180 million people would loose their health insurance. Just like Obama you can keep your doctor, it's a lie.

Versicherung ist keine Versicherung heute nötig es muss grundlegende Versicherung für Menschen schaffen der aller erste größte Versicherung für die USA werde abschaffen von privatem Waffenbesitz und die nächste heist es das umstrittene Gesetz ohne Hilfeleistung annullieren/

80/20 employer/employee plan. Govt mandates lowest price for all drugs. Hospitals advertise all prices, as well as doctors. Anyone not working goes to emergency and treated well, then assigned further. Geez, what's so friggin hard ?

This is a stupid headline. M4A will *long-term* virtually eliminate priv ins which does not contradict *short-term* support of priv ins or even long-term inclusion of priv ins as a separate system. Plz write better.

Obamacare 102,,, another failure by Democrats

Estrogen poisoning from consuming too much soy.

So I’ll still need insurance to see a doctor. Got it.

Doubled down? But why? 😂

Will Congress be enrolling in this welfare program?

MedicareForAll

. PUTINtrump2020 GOP = GobblingOrangePoop .

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