![]() SANDERS: I think people will support my Medicare-for-All program because the United States today is the Q: You have branded your single payer health program as "Medicare for All", Why would people support your program with ongoing Medicare problems? Medicare for All: insure 29M people beyond ObamaCare So I do believe that in the future, we should have health care for all. The Affordable Care Act has clearly, as Secretary Clinton said, done a lot of good things, but, what it has not done is dealt with the fact we haveĢ9 million people today who have zero health insurance, we have even more who are underinsured with large deductibles and co-payments and prescription drug prices are off the wall. The idea I would dismantle health care while we're waiting to pass a Medicare-for-all is not accurate. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. SANDERS: I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody. I am not going to have us plungeīack into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. This was a major achievement of President Obama. Senator Sanders wants us to start all over again. Health care for 29 million more uninsuredĬLINTON: The Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, I want to improve it. Source: MSNBC Democratic primary debate in New Hampshire I do not accept that the US can't stand up to the rip-offs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. I do not accept that the US can't do that. Significantly less per capita than we are. Every major country has managed to provide healthcare to all people and they are spending SANDERS: Let's deal with the comments that Secretary Clinton made. I don't want to rip away the security that people finally have ġ8 million people now have healthcare pre-existing conditions are no longer a barrier. I want to build on the progress we've made got from 90 percent coverage to 100 percent coverage. I've been fighting for universal healthcare for many years,Īnd we're now on the path to achieving it. Q: Secretary Clinton, you said of Senator Sanders that "It's very hard to see how any of his proposals could ever be achievable."ĬLINTON: Senator Sanders and I share big progressive goals. Other countries cover everyone why can't we? guaranteeing health care to all people, 50 percent more than they do in France guaranteeing health care to all people, far more than our Canadian neighbors, who guarantee health care to all people. There is one major country-the United States-which ends up spending almost three times per capita what they do in the SANDERS: There is one major country that does not guarantee health care to all people. Based on every analysis I can find, the numbers don't add up, and many people will be worse off than they are now. So if you're having single-payer, you need to level with people about what they will have at the end of the process. If it's Medicare for all, then you no longer have the Affordable Care Act, because the Affordable Care Act is based on the insurance But I think the people deserve to know how this would work. US is the only major country without universal health careĬLINTON: We share the goal of universal health care coverage. Source: 2016 PBS Democratic debate in Wisconsin In my view healthcare is a right of all people, not a privilege, and I will fight for that. Right in the middle of the economy would pay $500 dollars more in taxes, and get a reduction in their healthcare costs of $5,000 dollars. I don't know what economists Secretary Clinton is talking to, but what I have said, is that the family Millions of people have high deductibles and co-payments. One out of five Americans can't even afford the prescriptions their doctors are writing. We pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. SANDERS: 29 million people have no health insurance today in America. Every progressive economist who has analyzed that says that the numbersĭon't add up, and that's a promise that cannot be kept Hillary CLINTON: Last week in a CNN town hall, the Senator told a questioner that the questioner would spend about $500 dollars in taxes to get about $5,000 dollars in healthcare. Socialist Jr Senator previously Representative (VT-At-Large)įor $500 more taxes, everyone gets $5,000 more healthcare
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