What were the real highlights of the debate?
I heard about the access/affordability bit, which Sanders easily won.
But otherwise, I see R's saying Cruz won and D's saying Sanders won.
Well it will be divided on ideological lines, I saw a poll in some site which was close with Sanders leading 54/44.
See the deal is Sanders defended ACA but went full throat-ed for Medicare for all while Cruz was for some free market solution & didn't commit to any of the mandates. So obviously GOP won't support Sanders' idea while Dems won't support Cruz's idea. So ideologically each person thinks their candidate is right & the other is wrong.
Also it was a fantastic issue wise debate, you should watch it. I give full credit to Cruz's debating style but he has to answer some questions to win it, he evaded all the Pre-existing & tough questions & doesn't answer anything.
Highlights - Cruz slandering Single payer in every major country with stray stories, but he did a good job (Sanders didn't respond well).
Sanders owning Cruz about being funded by billionaires & wanting to repeal estate tax to give 200B $ tax cut. Cruz tried to say it is for small business which was exposed by Sanders that it benefited 0.2%.
Another highlight was a Texas businesswomen saying her business can't grow beyond 49 people due to Obamacare mandate to provide health insurance for 50+.
Sanders said she should provide insurance when she gets to 50 employees because others are providing & she is gaining from unfair competition & decreasing prices by not providing health insurance. What happens if those employees have cancer or diabetes?
I prefer Sanders' honesty than Cruz evading questions & doubling the cost of Bernie's plan to make his point. Bernie's rebuttal on some of Cruz's criticisms (who brought many pages & dozens of stories on Single Payer) should have been better but Bernie chose to stick to ACA & how repealing it will hurt people!
Thanks for the highlights!
