--- title: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talks Drake, Medicare on Colbert description: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talked about Medicare for All, Drake and Mitch McConnell during 'Just One Question' with Stephen Colbert. canonical: https://time.com/5555964/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-on-colbert/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-21T14:59:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:15.129Z og:title: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talks Drake and Medicare on Colbert og:description: During 'Just One Question' og:url: https://time.com/5555964/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-on-colbert/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36a7e8ca8724fd9f/69894712e76ad2a4266345d0/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-stephen-colbert-just-one-question.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2019 Athena Film Festival Presents Closing Night Film “Knock Down The House” og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talks Drake and Medicare on Colbert twitter:description: During 'Just One Question' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36a7e8ca8724fd9f/69894712e76ad2a4266345d0/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-stephen-colbert-just-one-question.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Discusses Medicare For All and Drake on Stephen Colbert > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Lars Niki/Getty Images for The Athena Film Festival) NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 03: US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attends the 2019 Athena Film Festival closing night film, "Knock Down the House" at the Diana Center at Barnard College on March 3, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Lars Niki/Getty Images for The Athena Film Festival) Lars Niki—Getty Images for The Athena Film  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 21, 2019 2:59 PM UTC There are few people who have captured the national attention in the current political space in the way that [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez](http://time.com/longform/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-profile/) has. From championing the [Green New Deal](http://time.com/5555721/green-new-deal-climate-change/) to leading the fight against Amazon’s plan for a New York headquarters which eventually led to Amazon bowing out, Ocasio-Cortez has made plenty of headlines recently, something that Stephen Colbert noted on Wednesday night’s episode of _The Late Show With Stephen Colbert._ This level of attention, however, has come with its fair share of backlash, including an irrational remark by _Fox News_ host Tucker Carlson, that Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t want people to reproduce with the Green New Deal. As such, Colbert decided to host his version of a town hall, “Just One Question,” where all the _Late Show_ staffers could ask Ocasio-Cortez any question they desired. The questions ranged from the personal (“How does it feel to be the youngest member of Congress?” to which Ocasio-Cortez replied, “A little lonely actually; no one here knows who Drake is.”) to the political (“How would Medicare for all even work?” which AOC addressed both expertly and succinctly), tackling everything from Mitch McConnell to that [infamous dance video.](http://time.com/5493430/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-dancing-video/) Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez answer the _Late Show_‘s questions below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5555964/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-on-colbert/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5555964/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-on-colbert/"},"headline":"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Discusses Medicare For All and Drake on Stephen Colbert","datePublished":"2019-03-21T14:59:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:15.129Z","description":"During 'Just One Question'","url":"https://time.com/5555964/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-on-colbert/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Late Night Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36a7e8ca8724fd9f/69894712e76ad2a4266345d0/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-stephen-colbert-just-one-question.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36a7e8ca8724fd9f/69894712e76ad2a4266345d0/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-stephen-colbert-just-one-question.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2019 Athena Film Festival Presents Closing Night Film “Knock Down The House”","caption":"2019 Athena Film Festival Presents Closing Night Film “Knock Down The House”","creditText":"Lars Niki—Getty Images for The Athena Film","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5555964/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-on-colbert/","name":"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Discusses Medicare For All and Drake on Stephen Colbert"}}]}] ```