前副总统乔·拜登周四公布了新的医疗保健和教育计划，试图团结民主党的温和派和自由派。
随着失业率在大流行中继续飙升，这位民主党总统候选人提出了他的建议，将医疗保险的资格降低到60岁，并免除已经上过公立大学的低收入和中产阶级美国人的学生贷款债务。
在一个中等今天下午分享的帖子，拜登联系了他的前进步对手伯尼·桑德斯的支持者，他昨天退出了竞选。桑德斯的许多支持者长期以来一直对拜登的中间派政策持怀疑态度。
拜登写道:“桑德斯参议员和他的支持者可以为他们为这些想法奠定基础的工作感到自豪，在应对冠状病毒危机的关键时刻，我很自豪地将它们作为我竞选活动的一部分。”。
根据医疗保险扩展提案，拜登将允许美国人在60岁时选择医疗保险，而不是现在的65岁。拜登写道:“这将使一群努力工作并在65岁前退休的美国人，或者那些更愿意在退休前放弃他们的雇主计划、公共选择或其他他们通过平价医疗法案获得的计划的美国人，能够获得医疗保险。”
2020年3月12日，特拉华州威尔明顿杜邦酒店，民主党总统候选人、前副总统乔·拜登发表了关于冠状病毒爆发的讲话。
虽然冠状病毒大流行已经让数百万美国人失业，但这位前副总统承认，即使危机结束后，老年人也会发现更难找到工作。他说，这一选择将从一般收入中拨款，以保护医疗信托基金。
根据学生债务豁免提案，拜登寻求取消低收入和中产阶级人士持有的联邦学生债务，这些人在公立学院和大学、私立历史黑人学院和大学以及少数民族服务机构就读本科课程。
如果领取者属于其中一类，并且年收入高达125，000美元，则有资格领取。拜登说，联邦政府将承担借款人的每月还款，直到债务的“可原谅部分”得到偿还。
拜登写道:“我相信，随着我们陷入这个国家近期历史上最动荡、最困难的经济时期，我们可以采取这些关键步骤，帮助劳动人民更容易实现收支平衡。”。
据美国劳工部称，随着冠状病毒疫情继续蔓延，导致美国各地失业，上周有660万美国人申请失业救济。该部门报告称，在过去四周内，已有超过1700万人提出申请。
新闻周刊联系拜登的竞选团队寻求评论。
新提案是在桑德斯暂停总统竞选的一天后提出的，本质上是将提名权交给拜登。
“众所周知，我们从来不仅仅是一场运动。桑德斯在对支持者的虚拟演讲中说:“我们是一个草根、多种族、多代人的运动，我们一直认为真正的变化从来不是从上到下，而是从下到上。”。"虽然这场运动即将结束，但这场运动并没有结束。"
JOE BIDEN UNVEILS PLAN TO FORGIVE STUDENT DEBT AND EXPAND MEDICARE ELIGIBILITY AS UNEMPLOYMENT SOARS
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled new plans on health care and education in an effort to unite the moderate and liberal wings of the Democratic party.
As unemployment continues to soar amid the pandemic, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee laid out his proposals to lower Medicare eligibility to 60 and forgive student loan debt for low-income and middle class Americans who have attended public college.
In a Medium post, shared this afternoon, Biden reached out to the supporters of his former progressive rival Bernie Sanders, who dropped out of the race yesterday. Many of Sanders' supporters have long-been skeptical of Biden's centrist policies.
"Senator Sanders and his supporters can take pride in their work in laying the groundwork for these ideas, and I'm proud to adopt them as part of my campaign at this critical moment in responding to the coronavirus crisis," Biden wrote.
Under the Medicare expansion proposal, Biden would allow Americans to opt into Medicare when they turn 60, rather than the current 65. "This would make Medicare available to a set of Americans who work hard and retire before they turn 65," Biden wrote, "or who would prefer to leave their employer plans, the public option, or other plans they access through the Affordable Care Act before they retire."
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks about the coronavirus outbreak, at the Hotel Du Pont March 12, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.
While the coronavirus pandemic has displaced millions of Americans from their jobs, the former vice president acknowledged that even after the crisis ends, older individuals will find it more difficult to secure employment. The option, he says, will be funded out of general revenues to protect the Medicare Trust Fund.
Under the student debt forgiveness proposal, Biden seeks to cancel the federal student debt held by low-income and middle class people who attended undergraduate programs in public colleges and universities, and private Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs).
Recipients will be eligible if they fall under one of those categories and earn up to $125,000 per annum. The federal government will assume the borrower's monthly payments, Biden says, until the "forgivable portion" of the debt is paid off.
"I believe that as we are being plunged into what is likely to be one of the most volatile and difficult economic times in this country's recent history, we can take these critical steps to help make it easier for working people to make ends meet," Biden wrote.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, causing job losses across the U.S., 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, according to the Labor Department. Over 17 million individuals have now filed over the past four weeks, the department reported.
Newsweek reached out to Biden's campaign for comment.
The new proposals come one day after Sanders suspended his presidential campaign, essentially handing the nomination to Biden.
"As you all know, we have never been just a campaign. We are a grassroots, multi-racial, multi-generational movement which has always believed that real change never comes from the top on down but always from the bottom on up," Sanders said in a virtual address to supporters. "While this campaign is coming to an end, this movement is not."
