Sanders: Creating a Single Payer Health-Care System ‘Won’t Happen Tomorrow’

>> Back to health care, by popular demand. First to you, senator Sanders. You’d prefer to scrap Obamacare and move to a single-payer system, essentially medicare for all. You say you want to put the private insurance companies out of business. Is it realistic to think that you can pull the plug on a $1 trillion industry?
>> It’s not going to happen tomorrow. And it’s probably not going to happen until we have real campaign finance reform and get rid of all these superpacs and the power of the insurance companies and the drug companies. But at the end of the day, Nancy, here is the question— in this great country of ours, with so much intelligence and so much capability, why do we remain the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right? Why do we continue to get ripped off by the drug companies who can charge us any prices they want? Why is it that we are spending per capita far, far more than Canada, which is 100 miles away from my door, that guarantees health care to all people? It will not happen tomorrow. But when millions of people stand up and are prepared to take on the insurance companies and the drug companies, it will happen, and I will lead that effort. Medicare for all, single-payer system is the way we should go.