ABC Democratic Debate: Live Coverage

Thank goodness for another mention by these candidates of their websites.

I think there’s going to be a reckoning over the debt load some former students are carrying — and that will eventually, in my opinion, lead to a write-down of some debt. Education debt cannot be discharged in a bankruptcy. So some (few) people have actually seen their Social Security checks garnished to pay their education debt. And then there are some colleges that are unaccredited or lose accreditation, often for-profit schools, leaving students with debt that does not advance their careers or standing in any way. I wish the moderators would ask directly if there should be a write-down of student debt and how the U.S. government would pay for it.

It’s so easy to forget during a Democratic debate that Obamacare remains fairly unpopular. Just 39 percent of Americans favor it, according to the Huffington Post/Pollster.com aggregate. I don’t see how single-payer health care would be any more popular once Republicans started ripping it apart. Nor am I sure how it would pass when Republicans have more than 40 votes in the Senate.