Posted on 04/21/2026 6:48:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) advised the next Democratic president to focus on passing universal healthcare, a policy measure that has been hotly debated within the party in recent years.
“We have to figure out, once we move in a progressive way, once we see a Barack Obama win, once we see a Congress win, it has to be about not holding power for the sake of holding power, it has to be about passing things,” Walz said on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight.”
“And for this — I —Donald Trump has encouraged me, when we take power back, I’ll tell you what — the next Democratic president better figure out a way to get universal health care or we’re back in the same situation again,” he added.
In the last decade, there have been growing calls for universal health care on the left, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has seen his political star rise with two presidential runs in 2016 and 2020, being a leading proponent of “Medicare for All.”
Hillary Clinton, who beat Sanders for the nomination in 2016, said single-payer healthcare will “never, ever” happen during that campaign, while President Biden said he would veto Medicare for All during the 2020 campaign, pointing to the price tag.
Walz emerged as a national political figure shortly before being selected as Vice President Harris’s running mate in her 2024 race for the White House. He announced in January that he would not run for re-election in Minnesota, amid a growing Republican scrutiny of welfare fraud in the state.
In polling from late last year, the majority of U.S. voters said health care was unaffordable and were open to a health insurance system that didn’t connect coverage to employment.
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Wait, I thought we had Obamacare.
Crawl back to your hole Tampon Tim.
- End Medicaid
- End EBT
- End Section 8 housing.
- End
last startHead Start- End Free breakfast li'l chill'uns.
- End all dem po'grums fo' li'l chill'uns.
Universal health care - where you wait 9 months to see a doctor. Walz is a mental defective.
So we can take fraud to a national level.
Can you imagine how much fraud he and his buddies can perpetrate with “universal health care?”
He is just looking to stay relevant after dropping out and saying he would never run for office again.
In a just world Walz would die in prison.
Correction...Hilliary Clinton STOLE the nomination from Sanders.
The Pile gets it wrong....again.
... and mandate physician assisted suicide.
How are the Walz not closing in?
Yep. Universal health coverage is NOT the same as universal health care.
And then they offer to suicide you.
>So we can take fraud to a national level.
If only. They want national health care so they can deny it to people and push them like Cana-duh into Nazi-style “euthanasia.”
Fraud is only a means to an end.
You got there first; but you’re spot on.
Imagine if a good house cost $50,000.
Would a family pay $20,000/year for PPACA premiums or move out of the country?
mmm, no, Walz. In Canada, their gov’t health care is so bad with poor procedures and very long waiting times, 5% of all Canadian deaths are via assisted suicide. It is effective, tho...
It’s not *Democratic*. It would be *Democrat*.
And I’ve seen what the government has done to health care.
*Universal healthcare* will equate to crap healthcare for everyone, if any at all, except politicians like him who will give themselves the best and not take what they foist on us.
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