Pity The Billionaires: Kamala Harris Scares Them
This is what happens when a fearless woman of color speaks truth to power: They tremble in fear and lash out.
Monday night, in the most-watched candidate town hall in CNN history, Senator Kamala Harris spoke truth: The way to affordable health care for everyone is Medicare for All. She explained her position pretty clearly: If everyone gets healthcare there's no need for someone in the middle reviewing claims and making decisions about what they need. People just get health care.
Michael Bloomberg and Howard Schultz know this, too, because they have both run multinational companies with strong presences in other countries with universal healthcare. Somehow, in spite of everything, they've managed to profit even as people in those countries got healthcare, funded partially with their tax payments to those countries.
And yet, on Tuesday both of them bared their teeth and went for Senator Harris' throat.
Howard Schultz was appalled that Harris wanted to do away with the health insurance industry (not the entire insurance industry as he claimed, by the way).
"You played Harris as saying she wants to abolish the insurance industry," Schultz growled. "That's not correct. That's not American. What's next? What industry are we going to abolish next? The coffee industry?"