Why "COVID-19 Care for All" but not "Medicare for All"

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Top Sanders Aide David Sirota Explains Why Billionaire Class Will Support "Coronavirus Care for All" But Never "Medicare for All" | Common Dreams News
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David Sirota on Twitter: "If you are wondering why Trump, Biden & Third Way simultaneously vilify Medicare for All but suddenly support Coronavirus Care For All -- it isn't a contradiction.
It almost certainly has to do with class and self-interest: https://t.co/Zr5SExbImk" / Twitter
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David Sirota - Posts

Donald Trump, Joe Biden and the corporate-funded group Third Way have all been critics of Medicare for All, but suddenly all of them now say they support Coronavirus Care for All. Some have asked why they would support free universal COVID treatment but not, say, free universal cancer treatment?

The answer is that in a political system owned by billionaires, workers are only permitted to get the absolute minimum amount of free health care that may prevent them from infecting billionaires.

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A more simple way of saying this is: the affluent political class supports Coronavirus Care For All because they fear getting COVID from poor people, but that same affluent political class opposes Medicare for All because they cant get cancer from poor people and so they don't care that poor folk cant afford chemo -- and they certainly don't want to pay higher taxes to fix that.

Great statement.