Bernie Sanders: ‘Health Care Is a Right Not a Privilege’

‘Trump lied about 19 different times in his op-ed’

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SANDERS: “I'll tell you why. As a nation we are spending twice as much per capita on health care as do the people of any other country, over $10,000 a year, family of four $28,000 a year. That is unsustainable. We end up having 30 million people uninsured and even more underinsured. You're talking about people being happy. These are people who are paying the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. These are people with deductibles that are so high that in many cases they can't walk in to the doctors' office. These are people who lose their job today are not going to have any health care coverage at all. Here is the bottom line. As a nation if we do what every other major nation on Earth does, that health care is a right not a privilege do we spend our money to provide health care for every man, woman and child or to make the drug companies and the insurance companies phenomenally rich while our health care outcomes are worse in many cases than many other countries? In the last poll I saw on this, Jake, suggests 70% of the American people understand that Medicare is a good program and it should be expanded to all people. One more point here. Trump lied about 19 different times in his op-ed. He said we are going to weaken Medicare coverage for the elderly. That is an outrageous lie. We expand it to include dental care, vision care and hearing AIDS. This is really important for seniors.”

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