Ed Rendell recently whacked Elizabeth Warren when she bashed Joe Biden for taking rich donors’ money. The former Pennsylvania governor wrote that he himself had run a “swanky” fundraiser for Warren’s Senate race, for which she thanked him royally. Furthermore, she transferred $10.4 million of her big-money hauls into her presidential campaign while bragging that she was only accepting small donations.
Calling that maneuvering sleazy would be overdoing it, but there is certainly something untoward about it. Warren refuses to say what taxes she would raise to cover her “Medicare for All” health care plan. Bernie Sanders’ similar vision — a single-payer plan that does away with private coverage — would cost an estimated $33 trillion over 10 years.
Recall Warren’s efforts to repeal the medical device tax. (It covered such equipment as X-ray scanners, MRI machines and pacemakers.) The tax was intended to help subsidize health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
It happens that a good number of medical device companies live in Warren’s state. Warren insisted that the tax had to go “so Massachusetts device companies can continue to innovate and save lives.” That’s the argument used to justify high drug prices.
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Warren is about unlikable as they come. To be fair, Trump has some coarse mannerisms that trigger the elites and the ignorant, but that is precisely what makes him both effective and endearing to “deplorables.”
Calling that maneuvering sleazy would be overdoing it, but there is certainly something untoward about it. Warren refuses to say what taxes she would raise to cover her “Medicare for All” health care plan. Bernie Sanders’ similar vision — a single-payer plan that does away with private coverage — would cost an estimated $33 trillion over 10 years.
Recall Warren’s efforts to repeal the medical device tax. (It covered such equipment as X-ray scanners, MRI machines and pacemakers.) The tax was intended to help subsidize health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
It happens that a good number of medical device companies live in Warren’s state. Warren insisted that the tax had to go “so Massachusetts device companies can continue to innovate and save lives.” That’s the argument used to justify high drug prices.
(Excerpt) Read more at lowellsun.com ...
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Warren is about unlikable as they come. To be fair, Trump has some coarse mannerisms that trigger the elites and the ignorant, but that is precisely what makes him both effective and endearing to “deplorables.”
