 Even though Joe Biden is still technically in the lead nationally when you look at aggregate polling data, well, going to polls from early primary states, it just doesn't look good for him. So CNN, of course, is coming to the rescue to prop up his failing campaign, and they offered him a town hall where he proceeded to make a fool of himself and lie yet again about Medicare for All. Now, I've talked about basically every single lie you can imagine with regard to Medicare for All and healthcare from centrist and corporate Democrats, but he trotted out a couple of new lies that I hadn't heard yet. And of course, since they're new, and I feel as if I am, you know, the Medicare for All channel, I had to respond and debunk them because these lies are damaging to the reputation of Medicare for All. I mean, you have grassroots activists who have been fighting for this for decades, and so many more people joined the fight, you know, in 2015 once Bernie Sanders popularized the term Medicare for All. And now what we're seeing is centrist Democrats like Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, they're actually effectively driving down support for Medicare for All and boosting support for a public option. So we have to combat their lies and tell people the truth about Medicare for All and just explain to them what it is. Like when I talk about Medicare for All, I don't lie to people about what it is. I tell you what it is, and the objective truth about that policy proposal is so great that people just feel inclined to support it. But the problem is people in America are bombarded with corporate propaganda and talking points that come directly from the industry, not just by political parties, but through mainstream media. So what we need to do whenever we see it is call it out. And that's what I'm going to do. So this is what Joe Biden said about Medicare for All. Healthcare is the single most important thing you all face. I mean, don't you think you're entitled to know whether or not your taxes are going to go up higher than the benefits you will get? Significantly higher. That's what almost every single study professor you know says. You know it says that. And so how do you explain that? Well, you should stand up and do at least what Bernie did and said, yep, it's going to cost 7.5% more in your withholding tax, meaning your pay will be ducted another 7.5%. And on top of that, a 4% to 5% tax increase. Well, that makes sense. But that only gets you halfway there. So there's a little bit of truth in lending here. Senator Warren, of course, has said that she's not going to be raising those taxes as you know, right? She has a different plan. You talked about her support for Medicare for All last week. You attacked her. I think it's a fair word. The quote was from you. You're just an elitist attitude about you're either my way or the highway. Let's get something straight. She attacked me. She went out and said, Biden, she didn't use my name anymore than I use her. She said, Biden is a coward. Biden, Biden is, in fact, in the pocket of. Biden is, and she went down the list of saying that I should be in a Republican primary. She did say you were in the wrong primary. Yeah, right. Now what do you call that? And what do you call that? So I responded by saying, no, no, here's what I said. It's not about her. It's about the attitude that exists right now. If you disagree with me, you must be bad. There must be, they question motive. Look, we can disagree. I respect her view. I really do. What I was talking about is you go home and you tell everybody people are busting their neck at the kitchen table conversations going on tomorrow morning like in the house I was raised in. And you say, by the way, I know you don't think we should raise your taxes on this, but this is good for you. This is good for you. What do you mean? But where did that come from? What specifically is elitist about how she's pursuing Medicare for all? No, the attitude that we know better than ordinary people what's in their interest. I know more than you. Let me tell you what to do. I know it. And it wasn't she's elitist. The attitude is elitist that people can't make up their own minds. You like your health insurance, but you shouldn't like your health insurance. You should have to give that up. I'm going to demand you not have that. We're going to give you something better. I like. I know what I want. So that is an attitude that says, okay, you're telling me it's my way of the highway. And it's not about her. It's about the attitude out there, the attitude that we know best. You do it my way where I come from growing up in a middle class neighborhood. The last thing I liked is people telling my family and me what we should know, what we should believe as if somehow we weren't informed that we just because we didn't have money, we weren't knowledgeable. I resent that. And I wasn't talking about her. I was talking about the attitude that if you don't agree with me, get in the other party. I'm more of a Democrat from my shoe sold to my ears than about anybody running in this party. Okay. Including her? App. Including everybody. Okay. Hey, Joe, back up. You don't have to stand that close to people when you talk to them. She can hear you just fine. He was standing so close to her that she probably literally smelled the health insurance CEO's boot on his breath that he was licking probably before attending that town hall. So that in and of itself, it's not just Trumpian and creepy, but it's really off-putting. Even if I'm not like there, even if I'm not in Aaron Burnett shoes, like I cringe for her because that's just that's just weird. Now, one more thing before we address what Joe Biden said, I'm so sick and tired of mainstream media pundits just erasing Bernie Sanders from the conversation and pretending as if Medicare for All was Elizabeth Warren's idea. Bernie Sanders wrote the damn bill. Bernie Sanders was endorsed by National Nurses United and real proponents of Medicare for All like myself. We don't even believe that Elizabeth Warren is going to fight for Medicare for All. So stop giving her credit for something that Bernie Sanders popularized. It's infuriating to me. But I digress. Moving on. So what Joe Biden said about Medicare for All was the usual arguments about it being too expensive and how much it will cost. I've already debunked that a million times on this channel. But what I want to talk about is the new line of attack that he's trotting out against Medicare for All. And that is that it is elitist for politicians to support Medicare for All. That's literally his argument. And he says it's elitist because you're telling Americans that you have to have Medicare for All and you don't get the quote unquote choice to have private if you wanted. Now, what is he not telling you that he's the one who's actually elitist because getting to choose between public insurance and private insurance, that's not real choice. What I want in terms of choice when we're talking about healthcare is the choice to visit any hospital I want and see any doctor I want. But if you have a public option, meaning you just allow the government to be one additional competitor in our health insurance market, well, you're not actually giving us more choice because those same insurance networks, those same limitations will exist. But he's trying to convince people that it's actually Bernie Sanders who's elitist because he's simply imposing a health insurance policy on you. No, you're the one who's elitist Joe because there is a power imbalance between people and their insurance companies. They're holding people hostage and they don't care about the delivery of healthcare. What they care about is increasing shareholder value. The delivery of healthcare is not their goal. Profits are. So you're the elitist Joe Biden. And look, there's a reason why the health industry is betting on Joe Biden to save them from Medicare for all. So the one who's actually being elitist and condescending here is Joe Biden, not Bernie Sanders. What Bernie Sanders is doing is he's empowering people to make their own decisions about healthcare. He's just saying, look, the government will take care of the bill and you make the rest of the choices you want. Whatever doctor you want to see, have at it. You don't have to choose between a public option or a private option. And let me remind you that a public option is doomed to fail from the start because what's going to happen? Well, these clever marketing companies that are working with the insurance industry, they're going to market these plans to healthy people, younger people. So that is going to shift the burden onto the public option. All the sick people will be on that plan and it'll end up being overburdened and underfunded. And then it'll collapse and then elites like Joe Biden will point to that and say, look, I told you that government run healthcare didn't work and then we'll never get Medicare for all because everyone will point to that example of the public options failure as I guess government run healthcare doesn't work. So he's lying to you and he knows he's lying to you. Now, there's another portion of this where he lied. He said, quote, don't you think you're entitled to know whether your taxes will go up higher than the benefits you will get? So what he's implying here is that the tax increase will not actually offset the overall healthcare cost. That's the implication, right? He's a little bit vague here. But what he's not telling you is that, yes, if you get a 7.5% payroll tax, Bernie is taking away your monthly health insurance premium. We're eliminating co-pays and deductibles. So this will net safe people money every single year. And we're not just talking about pennies and dimes. We're talking about thousands of dollars that the average American family will save every single year if we switched Medicare for all, even in spite of that 7.5% payroll tax. So Joe Biden, he has to lie because the facts just aren't on his side because if he told the truth about what Medicare for all actually brings to the American people, well, they wouldn't be on his side. They turn against him. So that's why you have to lie and obfuscate. That's why Pete Buttigieg has to market Medicare for all who wanted as increasing choice between public and private. They have to reframe the conversation because these are health industry stooges. Joe Biden is someone who is not looking out for your interests. He was the vice president when Barack Obama had a super majority. They could have passed single pair. They didn't even try to put forward a public option. And now we're supposed to trust that Joe Biden is actually going to fight for a public option a second time. I mean, you had the chance to fight for a public option and you didn't. So why should we believe that we're even going to get that if you're president, Joe? The answer is we shouldn't. We shouldn't believe Joe Biden because Joe Biden is an opportunist. He doesn't care about policy. He cares about power. That's what this is about. So don't be offended when people suggest that maybe you should run in the Republican Party primary because times have changed and Democratic Party politics. That's changed too. So you are misaligned with what the base of the Democratic Party wants. We want someone who's a populist who cares about the policy issues that we're fighting for on the ground, but grassroots activists are fighting for. And what you're pitching sounds very similar to a lot of moderate Republicans. So if you truly want to run for president and you want power, run as a Republican. Challenge Donald Trump because you're more aligned with the Republican Party than the average Democrat in 2019, especially young people. Hence why we don't support you. So that's all I'll say, you know, I wasn't really expecting anything different. I expected lies about Medicare for all from Joe Biden, but it's getting tiring. And as he, you know, begins to fail and fade away, now we have to combat the lies that people would have judges spreading up about Medicare for all. And I'm sick of it. We shouldn't have to beg people running in a Democratic primary for Medicare for all. Like this has been an idea for decades in the Democratic Party dating back to FDR. This is not a new idea. This is something that the Democratic Party has ostensibly always been in favor of. Or I shouldn't even say ostensibly because before, I mean, I'm sure Democrats actually supported it. But now we basically have to drag them kicking and screaming to get them to support Medicare for all. And they won't. Why? Because they're corrupt. They sold out. They're taking money from the industries that want to maintain the status quo where they rip us off and charge us, you know, thousands of dollars every single year to give us shitty healthcare coverage. But no, we're sick of that. We're done with that. And anyone who isn't opting for Medicare for all can step aside. No Medicare for all. No vote. Period.