Bernie Sanders: ‘We Are Making Progress’ on ObamaCare

ROBERTS: “Bernie Sanders. Sir, it's good to have you here. A lot to cover, but I want to start with you on the news about the ACA, ObamaCare. We’ve got just two days to go before health care coverage under the ACA kicks in on January the 1st. Obviously with these new numbers we see that interest has picked up for certain Americans. Your state's former governor, Howard Dean, says that he thinks it's going to be a success, but the number of young and healthy people, they just haven't gotten on board yet, and they are what's needed to float the boat. Do you think it's too soon to worry about that group not paying attention?”
SANDERS: “Well, I think we've got to worry, but I think we also have to understand that at a time when we have 48 million people in this country without any health insurance and even more people with high deductibles and co-payments, the Affordable Care Act in my view, Thomas, is a modest step forward. Which even if it had been implemented perfectly would still leave us very far behind almost every other major country on earth in terms of universal coverage. And by the way, in terms of the cost of health care, we are spending today almost twice as much per capita as any other nation on earth. That's something we've got to look at. But we are making progress. We still have a long way to go.”