Throughout the course of his campaign, Sanders has advocated for a universal system that would guarantee healthcare “as a right” to all Americans.
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His campaign released a chart Wednesday showing how he would seek to pay for some proposals, though not health care.
Clinton began advertising in August, three months ahead of Sanders, and over the entire contest has outspent him by about $3 million, the CMAG data show.
Campaign officials in ME said they’ve heard from people who are willing to drive to New Hampshire to volunteer.
Mother Jones described the new attacks as “an abrupt shift” with just a few weeks before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. And despite the echoes of 2008 now permeating Clinton’s remarks, her campaign has worked aggressively to avoid some of the operational missteps that also marred her first White House bid.
Voters expressed deeper confidence in her ability to be an effective commander-in-chief, and more of her supporters say their minds are made up compared with Mr Sanders’ backers.
On Monday, Sanders dug up a two-year-old tweet from John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chair, that backed a single-payer healthcare system.
In the latest volley of her multi-front January offensive against Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton is zeroing in on his single-payer health care plan.
Although Clinton has consistently received more than half of the vote from survey respondents over the last four polls, just 48 percent of participants said they would like to see the former first lady be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.
Chelsea Clinton charged that Sanders would “strip millions and millions and millions of people of their health insurance”. “Senator Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare, dismantle the CHIP program, dismantle Medicare and dismantle private insurance”, Clinton said. A Quinnipiac University poll showed that Sanders has taken a slim lead over Clinton in Iowa, 49 percent to 44 percent, after Clinton had led for months. It is undermining core Democratic principles.
“I’m prepared to do all parts to the job”, she said, after offering voters a detailed account of her time in the Situation Room during the killing of Osama bin Laden. Hillary loves it, and you’ve always been good to me. After spending much of a year ago engaged in polite policy disagreements, even going long stretches without mentioning Sanders by name, Clinton’s team has unleashed a torrent of attacks on Sanders, focusing in particular on his record on gun control and his refusal to detail the cost to taxpayers of his health care plan.
He also wants to tackle pharmaceutical companies who have been accused by doctors of letting patients die for the sake of profit and donated more money to Clinton’s campaign than any other candidate from either party.
Warren has said previously she expects to give an endorsement, but it’s unclear when it will come.
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“I did”, Clinton said when asked whether she bought a ticket.
