Activist on Coronavirus: ‘Opportunity to Transform Our Health Care System’ to a ‘Universal Health’

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POTTER: “Well, I think this is an opportunity for us to come to grips with the fact that we absolutely have to transform our health care system. Taiwan is a country that's right next to China, they have universal health care, and a system sort of like what Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have been advocating, and they’re in much better shape than we are, right next to China, when it comes to dealing with this virus. We over many years have been allowing the insurance industry to build a wall between us and the care we need brick by brick. And we’re in a situation in which not only do we have 28 million Americans who don’t have insurance, you have even people who have insurance, more than 50 million, probably 60 or 70 million, who are underinsured. And those bricks in that wall, by the way, are high deductible plans, which was a scheme by the insurance industry to boost profits, limiting our access to doctors and hospitals, and making doctors beg for approval to get coverage to treat us.”