Michael Bennet: Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About Medicare for All

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BENNET: “I think it depends on who they are. I think Bernie Sanders believes it’s exactly the right thing to do for the country. He’s believed it since 1973. He’s probably believed it since then.”
BERMAN: “You think he’s wrong?”
BENNET: “I think he’s wrong, but I think he’s leveling with the American people from his point of view. I think that — I genuinely believe that, if you sat down in a living room in my state, in a red part of the state or a blue part of the state and, after all, create enduring policy no matter what the partisanship is in Washington at our homes, we need people of both parties to agree. If you sit down in my state and said to people, we want universal coverage, do you agree, they’d sayah. Do you want to lower prices for everybody, they’d say rah yeah. Do you want to maintain quality, they’d sayah. If you said to them, by the way, half the people on this side of the street are going to have to lose their employer-based coverage if they go forward, their first question would be, do you have another plan, Michael? Yeah, I do. It’s called Medicare X, it creates a public option that allows people to choose for their families what’s best for them in terms of insurance and primary care. I just think that’s going to be an easier thing for us to sell, and it will mean — people will get it more quickly. I’ve got people all over my state who don’t have health insurance. It’s ridiculous.”