Democrats are having a family feud over the new Medicare for All bill

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, from West Virginia, for one, said lawmakers should work on making the current health system solvent instead of promising a new federal entitlement to all Americans.“We can’t even pay for Medicare for some that we’re supposed to be paying for. Other more moderate Democrats are also asking their progressive colleagues to show them the details of how they plan to pay for these proposals, especially because health care spending is already skyrocketing.“If it means people have to pay a 20 percent copay like Medicare that’s not good, because most people on Medicaid — all people — pay zero. So I think we’ve got to figure it out first,” Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader, from Oregon, told VICE News at the Capitol."We can’t even pay for Medicare for some that we’re supposed to be paying for. Just trying to fix what’s out there,” he said.But progressives brush aside the criticisms that single payer health care is unrealistic or too expensive.“Somehow or another every major country on earth has managed to do it at significantly less cost than the United States of America,” Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of a growing number of 2020 presidential candidates in Congress, told VICE News while walking next to the trams under the Capitol.Sanders previously spearheaded Medicare for All plans in 2016 when he first ran for president. “They’re trying to label it, and we need to talk about what it means to working men and women.”Other Democrats agree the party needs to unify its messaging on health care soon, otherwise Trump will be able to win that battle in crucial states on an issue that’s essential to all Americans.