Sen. Sanders to join Rep. Conyers at Detroit health care town hall on Aug. 22

[Hassin Bin Sober]

Sen. Sanders to join Rep. Conyers at Detroit health care town hall on Aug. 22


http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/10/bernie-sanders-join-john-conyers-detroit-health-care-town-hall/556768001/

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont congressman who won Michigan's presidential primary in 2016, will join U.S. Rep. John Conyers in Detroit on Aug. 22 for a town hall meeting on health care and jobs.

The Detroit Democrat said the town hall will be held at 7 p.m. at Fellowship Chapel Church, 7707 W. Outer Drive in Detroit.

Sanders, who ran as a Democrat in 2016 but lists himself as an independent in the Senate, and Conyers are both supporters of universal health care.

Conyers introduced a resolution in January — the same one he's introduced every year since 2003 — that would expand and improve the Medicare program and provide universal access to care for all Americans. Sanders has announced he will be introducing a similar version of the legislation and has been a primary advocate for a single-payer health care system.

[Rob H.]

1. K & R nt

[Curmudgeoness]

2. How is this not getting any attention?

It amazes me that if there is an OP with good news on Bernie, it is ignored. It seems that everyone here only wants to hear about how Bernie is not a team player, and since this shows that he is still working for liberal causes with Democrats, it is ignored. Such a shame.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. Does not compute does not compute does not compute

Bernie stole Conyers idea!!!!!!!!!!

[countryjake]

4. See here...

Centrist Democrats begin pushing back against Bernie Sanders, liberal wing
~ by Paul Kane ~ August 10, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/centrist-democrats-begin-pushing-back-against-bernie-sanders-liberal-wing/2017/08/10/6e1ea684-7d19-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.ece0355ba572

~snip~

The effort is publicly being labeled as “supplemental” to the emerging agenda being crafted on Capitol Hill, including the highly populist “Better Deal” proposal that party leaders in the House and the Senate touted last month. But the new group’s leaders do not see that agenda, including a push for lower prescription-drug prices, as particularly helpful to Democrats in exurban districts or key Midwestern states that President Trump won last year.

“That is an accurate reflection of many Democrats who represent deep blue districts. But it has limited appeal beyond the coasts,” Marshall said.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have been trying to offer the sort of economic agenda items that can appeal to voters in Iowa as well as California, targeted at working-class voters who abandoned Democrats for Trump.

But some centrists fear that this populist message will be tuned out by heartland voters if it is accompanied by the party’s increasing embrace of staunch liberal positions on cultural matters, including abortion rights and transgender issues.

The article was posted in Latest Breaking News yesterday morning by brooklynite but ended up being locked, so I'm not sure if he ever reposted.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1840956

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. Two completely different articles about different subjects.

[countryjake]

7. But possibly an answer to Curmudgeoness' question...

on why your thread was ignored?

It baffles me, too, when I try to understand why there's such little support for improving Medicare For All around here and spreading talk of a single-payer health care system far and wide, in preparation for the Midterm elections in 2018. Seems to me that's just common sense.

I hope there will be many more town halls on the subject of solving the medical care problem in our country...it's the red-hot topic out in the real world and it's an urgent one, for many people.

[Arazi]

6. A-yup. It makes this place suck