{"id":13499,"date":"2019-06-27T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13499"},"modified":"2019-06-27T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:27:09","slug":"medicare-for-all-emerges-as-early-divide-in-first-democratic-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13499","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Medicare For All\u2019 Emerges As Early Divide In First Democratic Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shefali Luthra and Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>During Wednesday night\u2019s Democratic presidential primary debate \u2014 the first in a two-night event viewed as the de facto launch of the primary season \u2014 health policies, ranging from \u201cMedicare for All\u201d to efforts to curb skyrocketing drug prices, were among the key issues the 10 hopeful candidates onstage used to help differentiate themselves from the pack.<\/p>\n<p>Health care dominated early, with Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Cory Booker (N.J.) using questions about the economy to take aim at pharmaceutical and insurance companies. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) emphasized the difficulties many Americans face in paying premiums.<\/p>\n<p>But the candidates broke ranks on the details and not all of their claims stayed strictly within the lines.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/medicare-for-all-emerges-as-early-divide-in-first-democratic-debate\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=74113289&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9khoyTYgmAoTQj4IZJSWNE-ZEaJeXReJ3YOkBQYGMhZMmqLk8P9KnUbCPrci0kUfBnOc-EGllmbhrIJPbApHYluqpXlg&amp;_hsmi=74113289\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shefali Luthra and Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact for Kaiser Health News) During Wednesday night\u2019s Democratic presidential primary debate \u2014 the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-healthcare-issues","category-m4a-and-public-option-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13500,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13499\/revisions\/13500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}