“Medicare for All — in terms of the bill that’s been introduced in the Senate — is fundamentally bad health care policy. Follow our presidential election coverage.“On kind of a macro level, if you just look at a couple of big stats, yes the economy is doing well,” Delaney said, but the former businessman asserted he was better suited to take on Trump over the more nuanced aspects of the economy than some of his opponents whose “socialist” policies he has derided.“I'm just going to point out: Their policies are bad policies,” Delaney, who until earlier this year represented Western Maryland in Congress, said. from Columbia in 1985 and went on to receive a J.D. Putting aside we have no way of paying for it, even if we were able to pay for it, it still would be bad policy.”Asked whether he considered Trump’s oversight of a growing economy could kneecap the eventual Democratic nominee, Delaney argued that certain statistics like unemployment that the president has lauded mask more pressing concerns like wage growth and job stability.Delaney is not the only Democrat running for president who’s been skeptical of moving to a single-payer health system like Medicare for All, nor has he been shy about his opposition to his fellow Democrats' embrace of a larger role for the federal government. Delaney was born in 1963 and grew up in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey. Follow their account to see all their photos and videos. His father was a union electrician, and Delaney has credited scholarships from the union and other community organizations with allowing him to attend Columbia University. Stay in the know. John Delaney (@johndelaney) • Instagram photos and videos John Delaney has 518 posts on their Instagram profile. After graduating from Georgetown, Delaney worked as a lawyer at Shaw, Pittman, Potts … We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Billionaire Democratic megadonor Tom Steyer gave Friends of John Delaney $2,700 in 2016 during Delaney’s third run for Congress. Former FAI CEO John Delaney has rejected claims by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) of engaging in conduct that would paralyse the watchdog's investigative powers. That proved to be his highest total in any of his campaigns for the U.S. House. Former congressman and 2020 presidential hopeful John Delaney on Tuesday slammed the progressive proposals of his left-leaning fellow candidates, blasting … The former congressman did not mince words on another ambitious proposal that has divided Democrats: the Green New Deal, which calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2030 and attempts to anticipate the shock wave such a drastic transition would send through the economy. He graduated with a B.S.