Subject: Re: Sanders Risky Riff
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: Robby Mook <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Oren Shur <[email-masked]>, Navin Nayak <[email-masked]>, Heather Stone <[email-masked]>, Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 11:30:04 -0500

Thanks Robby. Do others have thoughts?

On Jan 9, 2016, at 10:15 PM, Robby Mook <[email-masked]> wrote:

This is great--thanks for doing it so quickly.

--On ACA, I would get to the Governors right away and be a bit
sharper...along the lines of--"Bernie and I both believe every American
deserves quality, affordable healthcare.  My plan builds on President
Obama's progress by bringing down out of pocket costs for middle class
families and caps what you pay for prescription drugs.  Bernie takes a much
different approach--he would turn every federal health program--Obamacare,
Medicare, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance, healthcare for our
servicemembers--over to Governors.  Including Republicans--most of whom
refused to enact Obamacare...."

--On the health care spending, isn't it that she's worried it will raise
taxes on the MC?  I'd prefer that over a spending argument if the policy
backs that up.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> Democrats have a real choice in this caucus/primary.  And that’s a good
> thing.  Now, Senator Sanders and I share a lot of the same values and
> goals.  We both want to make the economy work for everyone, not just those
> at the top.  The differences between us pale compared to what we see on the
> other side.
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> But we *do* have differences.  I’m a progressive who likes to get things
> done.  And I measure every policy by whether it’s going to actually make
> life better for working families.  And I’m concerned that some of the ideas
> that Senator Sanders has proposed run the risk of hurting rather than
> helping.
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> On health care, I would defend the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans
> tried to repeal again last week, and I’d improve it by bringing down
> out-of-pocket costs for families and taking on skyrocketing prescription
> drug costs.  Senator Sanders wants to start a whole new system.  I respect
> what he’s trying to do, but it worries me that he’s putting all the
> progress we’ve made under President Obama at risk, and starting a new
> divisive national debate on health care when we’ve just been through that.
> He would end the Affordable Care Act and take Medicare, Medicaid, the
> Children’s Health Insurance Program, and every private insurance plan in
> America and turn it all over to the states, including to Republican
> governors like Terry Brandstad/Paul LePage.  That’s a risk we just
> shouldn’t take.
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> And his health care plan is part of a broader program that would add 18 to
> 20 trillion dollars in new federal spending, but he hasn’t told us how he’d
> pay for it.  There’s a big risk in this too, which is that hard-pressed
> working families are going to be left holding the bag.  Because when you’re
> talking about that much new spending, it’s hard to make the arithmetic add
> up any other way.  This is another difference between us.  I’ve laid out
> how I’m going to pay for everything I’m proposing in this campaign by
> making the wealthy pay their fair share.  I believe we need to raise middle
> class wages, not middle class taxes.  Not when incomes for most families
> have barely budged in years.
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> Values and goals are important.  But so is getting the job done and
> actually making a difference for families.  That’s what I’ve done as First
> Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State.  And it’s what I’ll do as President.
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