Medicare For All is a national security and public health issue, and Democrats need to start marketing it that way. Imagine there was something as contagious as the flu, that spread the same way the flu does, but killed more than 95% of the people who get it unless they get immediate antibiotic treatment. That disease exists, and has now infected five people in China, two currently in a hospital in Beijing. It's the same "Black Plague" germ, Yersinia pestis, that wiped out a third to half of all of Europeans in the 14th century. But the new airborne form of it can be transmitted with a sneeze and no longer requires a rat with fleas. It's called pneumonic plague, and we are the only country in the developed world without a national healthcare system to deal with the possibility of an outbreak. It's time to change that.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Video: WATCH LIVE: Open Hearing with Ambassador Bill Taylor and George Kent (13 November 2019).

Tweet: "Anybody want to lay odds on how long it'll be before @realDonaldTrump begins braying that it was all @RudyGiuliani's fault?
Typically it takes Trump about 3 weeks to throw former friends under the bus. Rudy's been pretty quiet for about 2 weeks, as I recall...
My bet: tonight." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel) catalogs the 9 lies of Devin Nunes in his opening impeachment statement" by Meteor Blades.

Article: "Read Devin Nunes' opening statement in the impeachment hearing" by Axios.

Tweet: "Devin Nunes' first lie came in his first sentence
He's over a dozen lies 30 seconds in" by Seth Abramson.

Article: "Bill Taylor: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know" by Jessica McBride.

Article: "Who is George Kent?" by Louis Jacobson.

Article: "Taylor staffer overheard Trump impatiently asking Sondland about 'the investigations' one day after infamous July 25 call" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Casualties of the Ukrainian crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Did James Comey cost Hillary Clinton the 2016 election: A guide to the debate" by Aaron Blake.

Video: Adam Schiff impeachment hearing full opening remarks.

Article: "GOP congressman interrupts hearing to ask about rules" by Meg Wagner, Veronica Rocha and Amanda Wills.

Article: "Burisma Holdings" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mykola Zlochevsky" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ukraine Policy and the 'Three Amigos': Impeachment Update" by Billy House and Erik Wasson.

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