Money Pours In for Sanders's New Medicare for All Digital Campaign

[Donkees]

August 02, 2017
byCommon Dreams


Excerpts:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is launching a campaign Wednesday to promote his planned Medicare for All legislation, engaging directly with voters across the nation.

The senator is asking supporters to sign on to the proposal as "citizen co-sponsors" via a digital ad campaign. In an article by the Guardian, Sanders's team described the operation as an effort to dispel myths about government-run healthcare, which is offered to the general populations of almost every western country and number of developing nations.

A longtime proponent of Medicare for All, Sanders has laid out his plan for the system on his website, noting that it would be paid for with taxes on capital gains, dividends and estates of the wealthiest Americans, as well as with savings that would be gained by eliminating healthcare tax expenditures.

Ahead of the ad campaign, Sanders sent an email to his supporters asking for ideas regarding how to implement a Medicare for All plan, counter right-wing attacks on government-run healthcare, and bring all Americans into the fight for healthcare access. Within 24 hours, Sanders had raised $65,000 and received 19,000 responses.

Sanders's Medicare for All digital campaign will include ads on Facebook and Google and is planned to last through the Senate's August recess. When lawmakers reconvene after Labor Day, the senator plans to bring his proposal to the Senate floor for debate.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/08/02/money-pours-sanderss-new-medicare-all-digital-campaign

[monmouth4]

1. Go Berne! Sounds like a plan..n/t

[brooklynite]

14. Tell us what the plan is...

I'm not seeing any sign that an effort to shift opinions of those who DON'T support single payer is underway/

[mountain grammy]

20. Look a little harder

That's what this is all about.

[tonyt53]

2. He can raise all he wants, but Mitch won't let it see the light of day.

[Me.]

6. Yep

[Raster]

7. May not be the case... Comrade McConnell's star is not shining so bright these days...

...HEALTH CARE FOR ALL is a very popular issue with the common folk.

[leftstreet]

8. And it's VERY popular with their own base

Witness the recent protests at their offices and town halls over the ACA repeal

Both parties are going to have a helluva time tamping this down!

[Weekend Warrior]

11. It's not very popular with their base.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/23/public-support-for-single-payer-health-coverage-grows-driven-by-democrats/

[QC]

9. It's best to do nothing :-(

[beam me up scottie]

22. That never gets old.

[Weekend Warrior]

3. The more we talk about these things and get them into the public sphere....

The more support they get.

[a kennedy]

5. Exactly......

[demmiblue]

10. True. n/t

[appal_jack]

13. Yes, exactly.

Why would anyone think an idea that the corporate media assiduously avoids would have (or need) veto-proof support before we can even talk about it?

The path to gaining eventual, veto-proof support for universal healthcare is to talk about it unrelentingly.

k&r,

-app

[mountain grammy]

18. Yep. Go Bernie!

[Trial_By_Fire]

23. That's the whole idea...

We have to continually push this message. That's how its done...

[RKP5637]

4. K&R! n/t

[floppyboo]

12. Keep the momentum going! n/t

[R B Garr]

15. Why is he enriching corporations like Facebook and Google?

They make a ton of ad money and it certainly doesn't go to the 99%. Raising money to pay for Wall Street ads is something he was supposedly against.

"Sanders's Medicare for All digital campaign will include ads on Facebook and Google"

[George II]

16. I hope he's doing it in compliance with Federal Campaign Finance Laws and Regulations.

[PatsFan87]

17. Go Bernie!

[mountain grammy]

19. K&R. Go Bernie

[beam me up scottie]

21. I'm sure someone will be along shortly to explain how this is a Bad Thing.

Because reasons.

Keep our powder dry!!!

What will Republicans say???

It's a waste of time, we should be doing (insert Very Important Thing here) instead.

Single payer isn't FREE! Plus it's complicated.

It's too hard, might as well give up now.

I LIKE my insurance, why do we need single payer?

HE'S CAMPAIGNING!!!

SELLING BOOKS!

He's up to something. I don't know what it is but I don't like it.


Yadda Yadda, lather, rinse, repeat.



Go, Bernie, give em hell!

[Trial_By_Fire]

24. Of course this is a super duper BAD THING!!!

...because Sanders is doing it!

I really don't get it how people can dislike Sanders sooooo much.
He is always fighting for the people.