Steyer calls Warren health care plan a 'huge risk,' weighs in on Anaconda Copper Mine contamination

[TexasTowelie]

Billionaire Tom Steyer believes the math behind Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-all plan could work but that it makes a lot of “heroic assumptions” he’s not willing to concede.

Steyer, who is polling fifth among the Democratic presidential field in Nevada, favors a public option health care plan that would allow Americans to opt into a government-run health insurance plan, while Warren’s proposal would require mandatory insurance in the government’s plan in what’s known as a single-payer system. The Massachusetts senator has long supported Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-all plan but released on Friday her proposal on how to pay for it, which includes additional taxes, payments by employers and cuts in government spending.

Steyer first criticized Warren’s health care plan during an interview with Fox News over the weekend but elaborated on those comments in an interview on the IndyMatters podcast this week.

“Everything that it accomplishes, we’re going to be able to accomplish. But we’re not going to have to turn society upside down,” Steyer said. “We’re not going to take this huge risk and we’re not going to have to make all these heroic assumptions, which could turn out to be true, but definitely could turn out not to be true.”

Read more: https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/steyer-calls-warren-health-care-plan-a-huge-risk-weighs-in-on-anaconda-copper-mine-contamination

[crazytown]

1. There is no significant risk, let lone huge risk.

M4A is not getting through Congress as everyone knows.

What Wall Street doesn't like is the funding package, some of which has a decent chance of making it into law.

[George II]

2. About $20T is either not funded or "funded" with questionable proposals that won't work.

[flotsam]

3. Who the fuck is Steyer

except money demanding attention?

[BlueMTexpat]

4. I was very interested in the reference to Anaconda Copper.

For a LONG time, Anaconda was the largest employer in my birth state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Copper

Steyer really didn't say that much about it though and didn't go as far as Julian Castro did, merely stating that they should need a permit from "local places."

At least he said something ...! But Steyer isn't likely going too far with Dems, at least not this time around.

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Eta in re Anaconda: One reason that Anaconda pulled out of MT - after doing a lot of polluting - was because at that time, we had strong union presence in the state and we mostly sent Dem Senators and Reps to DC. That was a definite silver lining because some were truly statesmen!

[BeckyDem]

5. Turn society upside down? He said that?

YOUR CLASS turned society upside down.

Warren 2020!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Medicare for ALL