What Went Down On Night One Of The First Democratic Debates

“I’m with Bernie on Medicare-for-all,” Warren says. That is important. That may be the most important moment of the debate so far — and my guess is it might be the biggest one.

Eighty-six percent of Americans favor allowing the federal government to directly negotiate lower drug prices with pharmaceutical companies for people on Medicare, while 13 percent are opposed, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll from February.

This has been a pretty populist debate so far, with both Klobuchar and Warren identifying big corporations and industries as the problem.