People in MI and WI want to keep their healthcare

[question everything]

More from Rahm Emanuel's on This Week

EMANUEL: The risk you said, and which is appropriate, and it measures up as, health care is the single issue that Democrats have a 35-point advantage on. President Trump's trying to do everything he can to narrow that down. We have taken a position so far, and the candidates have, through the process -- a few have not -- about -- on basically Medicare for all, which is , we're going to eliminate 150 million people's health care, and we're going to provide health care for people that have just come over the border.

That is an untenable position for the general election. As you know, George, I just biked around Lake Michigan, nearly 1,000 miles, through Michigan and Wisconsin, two really important states. Nobody at a diner ran at me and said, take my healthcare away. Nobody. This is -- this is reckless as it relates to -- and you don't have to take the position to win the primary. And you're basically literally hindering yourself for the general election.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-19-secretary-state-mike-pompeo-dnc/story?id=65464007

[dchill]

1. Go figure.

[demmiblue]

2. Rahm Emanuel's opinion is meaningless to me. n/t

[question everything]

3. Why? Did you visit small places in these states and heard the opposite?

Shooting the messengers on these pages is not conducive to making informed decisions.

[emmaverybo]

4. +1000

[Buckeyeblue]

6. I think he makes a good point

We need to enhance ACA. It works. And we need to go after the causes of the inflated costs of healthcare.

[Cha]

7. lol.. thanks for kicking the thread to

let us know.

[LuvLoogie]

5. A big reason why Barack was able to get the ACA to his desk is because he pulled Rahm

out of the House with the Chief of Staff job. This made room for Nancy Pelosi's push. I think Rahm would have been a big obstacle to the ARRA and ACA, and to any other progressive legislation coming out of the House.

Rahm is doing the GOP's healthcare takeaway projection for them. Rahm is fine as a manager, but not as a policy guy.

[NYMinute]

8. MfA is political suicide nt

[riversedge]

9. k for visibility

[betsuni]

10. K&R

[dgauss]

11. If MFA is framed as taking people's health care away, it's probably going to be unpopular.

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12. And do you think that you, or anyone else, can control the framing?

Remember that person who protested the ACA when first enacted that he did not want the "government to mess with his Medicare?"

[dgauss]

13. I would hope a Democrat could control their own framing.

Why does Emanual put it this way?

"We have taken a position so far, and the candidates have, through the process -- a few have not -- about -- on basically Medicare for all, which is , we're going to eliminate 150 million people's health care, and we're going to provide health care for people that have just come over the border."

He isn't saying others will frame it that way, that's how he is framing it. Not to mention that it's just not true that any MFA proposal would "eliminate 150 million people's health care."

[jcgoldie]

14. "Nobody at a diner ran at me and said, take my healthcare away."

uhmm... well thats a fair way to frame the debate...