THREAD: Today, @ewarren released her first-term plan to fight for & achieve Medicare For All. Here’s my take on why it covers the most people, fastest, most generously, and gets Medicare For All to happen...at all....and FASTER than any other proposal. elizabethwarren.com/plans/m4a-tran…
@ewarren Faster: Immediately, through executive action, @ewarren will revolutionize prescription drugs. Not band aid solutions like importing drugs from Canada, but using executive action to break up patent monopolies that keep prices high. #Bold #SystemicChange #FightPharma
@ewarren Faster: Instead of waiting years to expand Medicare to include robust dental/vision/long-term care, and waiting years to get millions more into Medicare, she’ll pass that in her first 100 days. Only 51 votes needed (even if filibuster exists) and achievable to pass quickly.
@ewarren Faster: BIG POINT YOU HAVE NOT HEARD ELSEWHERE: @ewarren gets full #MedicareForAll in 4 years or less while the default Senate proposal could take 6, 7, 8 years. Why?
@ewarren Faster: If #MedicareForAll eats up 2 yrs of fighting, and then the president looks for a mandate in the midterms, and then everything goes right and it passes in the third year, the default 4-year transition starts then. Meaning, we don’t get it for 7 years. Slowwwww...
@ewarren Faster: Under @ewarren’s plan, the 4-year clock starts ticking on Day 1. Millions of new people love Medicare as their insurer nearly immediately. The transition is already happening. So #MedicareForAll can happen close to instantly after passage. No extra 4 years of waiting.
@ewarren More people: Instead of waiting years for passage, millions of people (age 50+, kids, and people up to 200% of the poverty line) get into expanded Medicare close to immediately. Under default plan, they all wait for a potentially epically long battle. People die, go bankrupt.
@ewarren Getting it done, period: @Ewarren’s plan converts millions of people who may be scared by leap-of-faith promises (+ millions in attacks by Big Insurance/Republicans) into advocates for #MedicareForAll by getting them into the system & loving it before the final leg of the fight.
@ewarren Getting it done, period: Tens of millions of people who wouldn't be in Medicare if the #MedicareForAll fight was today — and would be targeted by scare tactics — will instead be inside & loving it when the final vote is called. Brilliant move to defeat Big Insurance by @Ewarren!
