Sanders: Why Can’t America Have Health Care Like Every Major Country on Earth?

COLBERT: "Well, you say-- your opponent, your opponent, Mrs. Clinton, has said that you offer false solutions, things that will not be achieved. For instance, single-payer health care, universal health care. We have just gone through eight years of constant fighting over what was really not-- not making health care public. Our health care is private. It was very good for private industry, ObamaCare. The insurance companies were all for it because everybody had to pay in. So it's not a socialized medicine. And still, people lost their minds. You want to actually introduce socialized medicine."
SANDERS: "No."
COLBERT: "They'll be voting to repeal this until the moon falls into the Pacific."
SANDERS: "Okay, let me rephrase the question. And ask you this."
COLBERT: "Hold on. Okay, you may."
SANDERS: "Okay. How does it happen that every other major country on Earth, all of Europe, our neighbors to the north, Canada are, able to provide universal health care to every man, woman, and child in those countries. They're able to have prescription drugs cost substantially less than in the United States of America. And their total costs per capita are much, much less than in our country."
COLBERT: "Well, my guest on Monday Bill O'Reilly said because there are 17 people in Denmark. And there are 300 million people here. He says it doesn't scale up for us."
SANDERS: "Well, that's-- not to disagree with my good friend Bill O'Reilly, but he's, as usual, wrong. Look, you know, Germany does it. The United Kingdom does it. Canada does it. Countries all over the world do it. What the issue is, not what we should do. Most people believe health care should be a right. Most people think it's absurd that the pharmaceutical industry continues to rip us off, and one out of five Americans can't even afford the prescriptions their doctors write. That's not the debate. The question is do we have the ability to stand up to the private insurance companies and the drug companies? I believe that when people are aroused, when they're organized, when they're prepared to stand up and fight back, yes, we can take on the drug companies and the insurance companies."