Delaney Slams Sanders: He Has ‘Fundamentally Bad Policies’

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BALLASY: "Now, you mentioned you're more of a moderate choice. Why do you think somebody like Bernie Sanders and his policy positions are not good for the future of the country, like Medicare-for-all and the Green New Deal and other ones?"
DELANEY: "You know, I think they're fundamentally bad policies. Like, I want universal health care too. I want everyone to have health care as a right and I have a plan to do it. But putting forward a plan that gets rid of all private insurance, that's just not smart policy. That will lead to worse access and quality of health care. And besides, a lot of people who have private insurance actually like their private insurance. So why the heck are we running a campaign on taking people's private insurance away? The same thing with the Green New Deal. While I admire the goal, there's much better ways of actually dealing with climate. I introduced the only bipartisan carbon tax bill in the Congress. That, I think, I could do my first year as president. We need to focus on strategies that really deeply decarbonize our world like negative emissions technologies, direct air capture. I want to build a CO2 pipeline in all the industrial Midwest to help capture carbon. I mean, there's much more practical things to do that actually get at the issue. So those are — you know, the problem I have with the senator is his policies aren't good. They're actually not good policies. And by the way, if we put socialism on the ballot in 2020, you know, I don't think we have much of a chance of winning, to be honest with you."