Name: Andrew Yang CONFRONTED on Medicare For All Stance
Uploaded: 2020-01-12T19:06:49.000Z
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>> Andrew Yang, recently released his healthcare proposal.

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And a lot of people have noticed that it is pretty different in some fundamental ways

We're gonna go through his history in just a little bit but before we get to that, he

And he faced some hard questioning about the difference between his past rhetoric on healthcare

>> I'm a little bit confused about where you stand.

First, I want to play clips from two of your ads where you talk about healthcare.

>> We need to move towards Medicare for all system where every American has access to

>> His ideas are a blueprint for a new wave forward.

A healthcare system with Medicare-For-All.

>> But I've looked at your healthcare plan.

And this plan does not call for Medicare-For-All, in fact, it doesn't even have a public option.

>> We need to move towards universal healthcare that's high quality and nearly cost free for

But reality is, we have millions of Americans who are in private insurance right now.

And taking those plans away from them very quickly would be untenable for many many Americans.

To me the goal of the government has to be to demonstrate that we can out-compete private

And then push them out of the market over time.

>> So we have a little bit more on that in just a little bit but it was pretty immediately

Understand he's releasing his plan months after other candidates have and after we've

had, whole new cycles, weeks of news about.

Some of the candidates in the Democratic primary backing off of their past promises.

To do Medicare-For-All or to do it along a certain timeline and he has talked a lot actually.

So in that, they showed a few of his ads.

I checked to see if he had specifically tweeted anything about Medicare-For- All.

And there's a lot, so we just got a couple, so we can bring this up, he says, we need

to provide high-quality healthcare to all Americans.

And a Medicare-For-All system is the most efficient way to accomplish that in July.

He says, people are always asking where are you going to get the money for healthcare,

We're spending twice as much and you can see there in that tweet.

Medicare-For-All, will get a massive burden off of families and businesses, that was in

August of the previous year, 70% of Americans are now for Medicare-For-All.

Let's make healthcare a right of citizenship once and for all, which I love.

But it is pretty far from, well, we need to eventually get there by out-competing the

And then just naturally forcing them out because they can't compete, that's I mean, that's

not even like a four year roll-out period.

>> Yeah, so I'm known for liking outsiders, it's true, I do.

I think they have interesting new ideas like Andrew Yang does.

Mentioned democracy dollars, dozens, maybe hundreds of times.

How its innovative and wonderful and that Andrew Yang has a lot of great ideas and a

I don't agree with all of them but I think it's great that he's got those and it's different.

And I think the current inside of system sucks and then here we have a snarky reporter from

Jonathan Karl being snarky to Andrew Yang.

So if I'm going to follow form, I will tell you Yang is right and Carl is wrong.

Except, I'm not gonna do that cuz facts matter and Carl is right and Yang is wrong, that's

And so if all we cared about is our political perspective, in this case, outsiders.

I would just be biased and blindly tell you that Andrew Yang is right but he isn't.

Carl is right, the plan does not have Medicare-For-All and Andrew Yang did support Medicare-For-All.

In fact, he said it several times on the Young Turks, so I think this is a disastrous step

And I think that they probably got, they spent too much time in politics.

I've seen polling that shows that Universal Healthcare poll's better than Medicare-For-All.

So now all of a sudden Andrew's talking about Universal Healthcare and backing away from

And so that's not why you're interesting, that's not why people are excited about you.

>> Nobody's, nobody, there's a Yang gang, there's no Biden gang.

There's no Biden gang because he does the same polling and goes with-

>> Focus groups and- >> Focus groups and the donors and all that

That's wow, so this is a really bad turn I wish he hadn't taken.

>> Yeah, and look, maybe he'll come back on the Young Turks and he can talk about it.

Yeah, and I look to see if since yesterday if he had talked at all about this.

I couldn't see any of the sort of clarification or anything like that and I understand for

He left like enough of a, well, I care about the spirit of Medicare-For-All and someday

That you can hypothetically say he's not backing off but I mean, you've been around for this

When Elizabeth Warren started changing some of what she was saying about the timeline.

That was a huge issue Buttigieg, how much did we go over his past tweets about Medicare-For-All.

And that was current plan, isn't the same and Buttigieg's plan is more Medicare-For-All

So although I like Yang, I've interviewed Yang, he seems like a really nice guy.

I love that he's in the race, he does have a lot of good ideas, we're not gonna pretend

It's not at all, it is as far as I can tell right now and there are certainly there are

You can look at his plan, it does have some good stuff but a lot of it is in those other

plans which also get to Medicare-For-All.

It appears to be basically the most conservative healthcare plan that has been offered in the

>> And if you're gonna be last, you shouldn't, you're supposed to be first or best or whatever.

But he's last and not best, not by a longshot, not in this.

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