Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Change The Definition, Change The Discussion

MacCallum: How concerned are you about the socialist part of the equation that we are seeing with El-Sayed and with AOC?

Dingell: I hate labels. What do you call me? I'm one of the leaders of medicare for all. My father-in-law was one of the authors of social security and got called a communist at the time. Do you think there is any senior right now that would call social security communism?
He's the hero of the action movie he thinks he’s living in.
El-Sayed: Yes, we need to make medicaid whole again. Yes, we need to replace the ACA subsidies. But we need guaranteed healthcare for everybody.

We do this thing in this country where we allow different people's bodies to command different reimbursement rates. It is a crazy thing. And everybody should be able to command the same reimbursement at the end of the day. I can tell you this with some experience, we all look the same on the inside.
Kamala Harris: As one of the most financially strong economies in the world, we have the distinction of also having one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world. So it raises the issue of disparities and also hypocrisy when the are leaders who otherwise walk around every day talking about their family values
Family values. Socialism . Communism. The rule of law. Three of those don’t loom so large as they used to; and the fourth is becoming more important than it has in years, if only because of determined efforts to extinguish it.
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