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This is 4 years AFTER HE GETS IT PASSED—which will rely on mass protest, since he has no legislative plan. https://twitter.com/topherspiro/status/1225804643999059969 I’ve pointed this out to Berners who attacked @ewarren ’s M4A proposal; they kept saying “a 4 year transition was Bernie’s 2017 plan.” Apparently it’s also his 2020 plan.This is 4 years AFTER HE GETS IT PASSED—which will rely on mass protest, since he has no legislative plan.





That’s 3/4 of ALL AMERICANS WITHIN HER FIRST 100 DAYS.



The other 1/4 could buy in to Medicare. Meanwhile, @ewarren ’s plan envisions using budget reconciliation and EOs to expand FREE Medicare to everyone <18 and 50+—not 55 as in Sanders’s plan—as well as <200% the poverty line.That’s 3/4 of ALL AMERICANS WITHIN HER FIRST 100 DAYS.The other 1/4 could buy in to Medicare.

She would then commit to getting free M4A for the other 1/4 passed BY YEAR 3, after 3/4 of Americans (plus those who’ve bought in) have already had it for 3 years and loved it. It’s easier to expand reality once people know it’s not scary—and once you’ve killed the filibuster.

Sanders’s plan amounts to this:



—One gigantic bill that couldn’t pass by reconciliation and would get instablocked by the GOP



—He’s against killing the filibuster so he needs 2/3 of Senators to get it done. He’s relying on mass protests to move them—but will they care? (No.)

—He’s against EOs as a way to make policy, so a lot of the other reforms Warren proposes wouldn’t happen until his big bill passes.



But he’ll hold rallies to put pressure on the GOP.



Has he seen the rallies Trump puts on? Does he think Trump will just...go away after he’s out?

Sanders’s M4A plan as outlined means no real changes until his omnibus bill passes with GOP support due to public pressure—while ex-POTUS Trump attacks him nonstop. Then year one after it passes, folks 55 & OLDER get M4A; then 45+, 35+, then everyone. Young folk wait four years!

Warren’s M4A plan is EO reforms in her first 100 days & budget rec expansion of Medicare to 75% of Americans—plus buy in for the other 25%—YEAR ONE. Young folks get it IMMEDIATELY. She also will push to kill the filibuster to get her omnibus (& other plans) passed by year THREE.

By any standard, @ewarren ’s M4A plan is more thorough, detailed and possible than Sanders’s. But it also covers MORE people FASTER. And it uses tools that have already been proven to work—EOs, budget rec—plus a reform Sanders refuses, killing the filibuster, to make it happen.

If you want M4A to actually happen, vote for the woman who’s thought it through and knows how to make things happen even in a broken system. She built a whole federal agency over the backs of the GOP!



If you want dueling banjo rallies every week, Sanders and Trump will deliver.

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