Sanders: ‘Being Born’ Gives You Right To Have Health Insurance

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BAIER: "Senator, there is widespread bipartisan agreement that programs like medicare, social security and medicaid are the main drivers of our rapidly increasing national debt. Now approaching $20 trillion. Without reforms of these programs, they say we're heading for a debt crisis. You have the congressional budget office among others, spending on these programs could consume all revenue by 2031. We wouldn't have money for national defense and poverty brahams. You have a big tax increase planned. But you also plan to spend some $18 trillion on programs. How do you prevent a debt crisis?" 
SANDERS: "Of that 18 trillion, much of it is being spent to have the United States join the rest of the industrialized world. In guaranteeing health care to all people. And what that means is that in fact the average middle class family. That 18 trillion does not include the fact that that middle class family in the middle of the economy would save about $5,000 a year on their health care costs. I happen to believe, I know not everyone agrees with me, I believe that health care is a rightof all people. I believe there's something wrong when we are spending --" 
BAIER: "Where does that right come from?" 
SANDERS: "Being a human being. And I believe that she is poor and you are rich, she is entitled to the same quality health care you have, because she's a human being. But in any case, when we talk about our health care system, it's important to know. It's not just that we have 29 million people without health insurance, we have many more who are underinsured and we are getting ripped off big time by the pharmaceutical industry. We end up spending and you can explain it to people. Why do we spend three times more than the British do per person for health care opinion and why --"