#chuck todd
Jesus fuck. Bernie just fucking killed the health care rationing question regarding a single-payer system in this debate stronger than I’ve ever heard a political question ever answered. Ever.
*may have been better if he pronounced the world “ration” correctly though.
Bernienailedit.
CHUCK TODD: Thank you. Before I get to the next question, Senator, I wanted to follow up on something you were talking about, the single-payer – referred to single-payer health care, talking about some of the European systems.You know, a common complaint in those European systems has to do with wait times for treatment, wait times for seeing specialists. How do you propose in your Medicare-for-all system to not have Americans have to deal with rationing of care?
BERNIE SANDERS: We are the only country in the industrialized world that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people. I’ve been criticized for saying that. Let me say it again. I believe healthcare is a right of all people. I will fight for a medicare for all, single payer system.
Second of all, alright. You want to talk about rationing, you got 29 million people in this country who have no health insurance. How’s that for rationing. They can’t got to the doctor. And, then you got even more who are under insured with high deductibles, and high copayments.
I have talked to doctors who have told me that people walk in the door extremely sick, and the doctors say, why didn’t you come in here six months ago when you first felt your symptoms?
And people said, “I had no health insurance,” or, “I had a high deductible”.
Chuck, some of those people die, or they end up in the hospital. You want to talk about rationing, that’s rationing. To answer your question. We spend almost three times more per person than the people in the U.K., 50% more than the people in France.
We can have a world class healthcare system without waiting lines, spending the same amount of money we’re spending right now.
With the 2020 Democratic presidential debates in full swing, gun violence prevention experts want moderators of upcoming debates to ask candidates fact-based questions about firearm policy.
In the past, gun safety platforms have failed to break through during both primary and general presidential debates. In this election cycle, moderator Chuck Todd did bring up gun safety during the first democratic presidential primary debate on June 26, but he adopted a right-wing talking point that strengthening gun laws would require confiscation of people’s privately owned firearms, serving as an example of how not to question the candidates about their platforms.
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