Michael Bennet in Meet the Press interviews during 2019


On Health Care: Public option better than Medicare for All

My suggestion on Medicare X creates a true public option, administered by Medicare, rather than threatening to take away insurance from 180 million people, 80% of whom like it, all the unions in America that have negotiated for their healthcare plans. I think that the American people have waited long enough for universal healthcare.
Source: Meet the Press 2019 interview of 2020 presidential hopefuls May 5, 2019

On Principles & Values: Continue investigations; see if public supports impeachment

The majority of people say that the House should continue to investigate, and then we should make a decision down the road, about whether to impeach, I think that's exactly right. Mueller should testify. We should have the full, unredacted report. It seems fairly clear, from the evidence, that he has committed impeachable offenses. But we need to go through a process here and see if the American people can be convinced that that's actually the right outcome.
Source: Meet the Press 2019 interview of 2020 presidential hopefuls May 5, 2019

On Health Care: Make public plan optional; others can keep private insurance

There are two big projects for America on healthcare. One is covering everybody. It is a disgrace that we are the only industrialized country in the world that doesn't cover everybody. And the other thing we need to figure out how to do is not spend twice as much on healthcare as we spend -- as any other industrialized country spends on healthcare to get worse results. That's what we're doing as a country. We've got to figure out how to do those two things. And I actually would give the Nobel Prize to whoever can figure out how to do those two things. I think we'd be much better off with a bill like the one I have with Tim Kaine called Medicare X, that creates a public option. It helps finish the work of ObamaCare. It says to America, "If you want to be in a public plan, you can choose to be in a public plan. If you want to keep your insurance, you can keep your insurance."
Source: Meet the Press 2019 interviews for 2020 Democratic primary Feb 10, 2019

The above quotations are from Meet the Press interviews during 2019
(Chuck Todd interviewing candidates for 2019-2020 races).
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