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Support for Medicare for All is a “National Consensus”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
10 Dec 2019
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“When an issue gets to the point where it has a national consensus behind it,” as does Medicare for All, “the people who profit from the system will do all they can to stop it,” said Kevin Zeese, of Popular Resistance. Democratic presidential candidate “Elizabeth Warren’s popularity dropped like a rock,” said Zeese, when she watered down her support for Medicare for All.

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