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Kamala Harris Clarifies Position On Eliminating Private Health Insurance: "That's Not What I Meant!"
RCP Video ^ | 5-12-2019 | Tim Hains

Posted on 05/12/2019 10:57:02 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris joined CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday for a wide-ranging interview about trade, impeachment, the Mueller report, gun control, health care, immigration, and more.

Tapper asked about her support for Medicare For All and her call in a January town hall on CNN that she supports "eliminating" the private health insurance industry.

"That's not what I meant!" Harris said.

"I support Medicare for all but I really do need to clear up what happened on that stage," she said. "It was in the context of saying let’s get rid of all the bureaucracy."

TAPPER: I want to ask you about something you said that night.

You said on stage with me in January that, when it comes to private insurance -- quote -- "Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on."

HARRIS: Yes.

TAPPER: Now, you later said we don't need to get rid of all private insurance.


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>>> "It was in the context of saying let’s get rid of all the bureaucracy."

Sure, honey, you are as believable as any Democrat who says "Let's get rid of all the bureaucracy."....

Of course your intent is to "eliminate the private health insurance industry", as you stated originally. This walk back is as phony as you being a tough prosecutor in CA.

1 posted on 05/12/2019 10:57:02 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

Typical Grubering ‘Rat


2 posted on 05/12/2019 10:58:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Dear Commie Kammy: Add an English Major to your campaign.


3 posted on 05/12/2019 10:59:31 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Sir Napsalot

The journolistas are blatantly hand holding and walking the libtard idiot politicians through their own gaffes.


4 posted on 05/12/2019 10:59:51 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I believe the Ho. Not.


5 posted on 05/12/2019 11:00:04 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Sir Napsalot

perhaps.. .she really didn’t mean to hide the facts of her ineligibility from her website, either?


6 posted on 05/12/2019 11:00:17 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Sir Napsalot

Just like BHO didn’t mean “...no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”


7 posted on 05/12/2019 11:01:04 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Sir Napsalot

She’s a liar. All godless socialist communists are liars.


8 posted on 05/12/2019 11:01:57 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

If they wanted Medicare for All, they could have proposed that under Obama. But it isn’t Medicare for All, which could be about a two page bill, its a 3000 page bill followed by 60,000 pages of regulations, followed by hundreds of volumes more.

How about this: lower the age for Medicare to 59, and otherwise leave it alone. That lowers the cost of private insurance for everyone else.


9 posted on 05/12/2019 11:02:57 AM PDT by marron
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To: Sir Napsalot

She meant what she originally said, but it wasn’t polling well. People want freedom, not Communism. So now “that’s not what [she] meant.” Phony Commie Bitch.


10 posted on 05/12/2019 11:03:19 AM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
"That's not what I meant!"

"Well, what did you mean?"

"You're only asking me that because I'm a Woman Of Color!"

11 posted on 05/12/2019 11:05:32 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Sir Napsalot
Glad to know there is no bureaucracy in Medicare... 🙄
12 posted on 05/12/2019 11:07:24 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
A bit more from the same interview -

This is gonna help: Kamala Harris tries to ‘clarify’ whether she’ll wipe out private insurance, and it’s a DISASTER

13 posted on 05/12/2019 11:09:07 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: marron

Just make it so that if you take early retirement, you also pick up Medicare. That way the Medicare program will get Part B payment to Gov 3 years earlier.


14 posted on 05/12/2019 11:10:16 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sir Napsalot

More and more, the Democrats are acting like a large gang of small children holding a dare contest.

The first one says, “I’ll eat a live earthworm!”, so a bunch of others chime in to say that they’ll eat one too. But then after just a minute, several of them who said they would back down and say I never said that...

Then another says he will eat a raw egg, and others chime in.


15 posted on 05/12/2019 11:12:29 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Desperate swarm sewage drains for water..." Venezuelans or D.C. Swamp denizens?)
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To: Sir Napsalot
, when it comes to private insurance -- quote -- "Let's eliminate all of that.

Not a lot of ways to "interpret" that one.

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16 posted on 05/12/2019 11:12:37 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Sir Napsalot

WOW she’s an idiot..Id love to see the text messages between her and Smollett, they ought to be a doozy


17 posted on 05/12/2019 11:17:23 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sir Napsalot

Stupid, race-baiting, dumber than a brick woman that rose to the top on her back.


18 posted on 05/12/2019 11:24:22 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: Sir Napsalot

Yeah well, Jered Huffman, Gavin Newsom Assemblyman Wood, Senator McGuire ALL stated “single payer” to wide applause here in Humboldt. Also a standing ovation for AOC’s Green New Deal. Believe the lies, utopia is going to be beautiful if one can play hopscotch through the4 human excrement in word, deed and....human excrement.


19 posted on 05/12/2019 11:24:50 AM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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To: Jim Robinson

She is a liar and a thief. She wants to steal from us. Lying and thievery go hand in hand. That is her culture.


20 posted on 05/12/2019 11:25:35 AM PDT by forgotten man
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