Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke to reporters about his red line against Medicare expansion getting gutted from Joe Biden’s reconciliation bill by so-called Moderate Democrats, like Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), who have resisted Medicare negotiating drugs prices, and outright Conservative Democrats like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who say that expanding Medicare to include dental, vision and health would not be fiscally responsible.
“Bottom line is that any reconciliation bill must include serious negotiations of Medicare and the pharmaceutical industry to lower the cost of prescription drugs, and a serious reconciliation bill must include expanding Medicare to cover dental, hearing aids and vision,” Sanders said, Tuesday.
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http://youtube.com/SamSederSam Seder: One of the people who's not getting along with Joe Manchin these days is uh Bernie Sanders. I thought they had that photo op though they did have that nice photo where they took a picture with each other and there...i mean at one point, right, does this reconciliation bill become worth it to pass at all for for progressives? I mean there there is and and i don't know that we know enough about what's in it we'll we'll go through you know sort of like what we know is definitely not in it and where we think it might land uh and we're gonna talk about the taxes but at one point the the the the question may come down to is it worth passing any of this is it worth passing any of it do is there more is the is the policy value just not significant enough and the political costs associated with the way that these policies are being now sort of twisted and developed simply too great and do progressives have more leverage if they wait a couple years i mean honestly i mean this is what it comes down to it's a very hard decision to make for a lot of people i mean if you're going to have a tiled tax credit a tax credit that's going to sunset in a year.
And it may not get picked up again and may end up because it's sunsets may end up costing democrats because the Republicans will run on it uh and they're just going to be a diminishment of of benefits for people where
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