Bernie Sanders plots another universal healthcare push
By Peter Sullivan - 07/30/15 11:07 AM EDT
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Thursday that he will introduce a single-payer, Medicare-for-all bill “in the very near future.”
The presidential candidate spoke at a rally in a park across the street from the Capitol, in front of cheering union members celebrating the 50th anniversary of Medicare. He pushed for a universal system, in which the government provides health insurance for all.
The senator said Medicare was worth celebrating but that “the time has come also to say that we need to expand Medicare to cover every man, woman and child as a single-payer, national healthcare program.”
A statement from Sanders’s office after the rally said that the bill would set “federal guidelines and strong minimum standards” but that states would administer the single-payer programs.
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That gives it a kind of sinister component. WTF?
Good Senator Sanders! Get the for profit, health insurance criminals the hell out of Dodge.
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